Bug#239006: installation-report
severity 239006 wishlist
reassign 239006 shadow
retitle 239006 Initial user should be added to useful groups
merge 239006 166718
thanks
Quoting Krikket (krikket@gothpoodle.com):
> I've only had one problem with this install, but it's been a doozy. With
> luck, you'll be able o help me out with it... I have no audio output.
>
> When I boot into a KDE shell, I get an error:
>
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied)
>
> I have had sound working correctly on this system in the past (with many
> different flavours of linux). I'm using a Cirrus Logic |Crystal cs4281
> PCI audio controller. (Built into the motherboard.)
>
> I was also dissapointed to find the video driver wasn't explicitly
> supported (but I do have a kludge that works). I"m using a 3d Rago Pro
> AGP 1x/2x. Some linuxes (SuSE) support it, and some don't. *Shrug*
This is because you are not member of the audio group.
Assuming you created a user "joe", you should run:
adduser joe audio
(as root)
Then reopen the KDE session and presumably you will get sound....if
your sound card was properly setup of course.
There is a debate about whether the first created user should be added
to so-called "useful" groups which give access to local peripherals.
This belongs to the "shadow" package instead of core Debian Installer
(however, I imagine that users don't really care about this)
This point is however strongly debated...see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=166718
My opinion about this is that as long as we don't have a better and
cleaner solution, we really should add the first created user to
"useful" groups. This could be an optional question at high priority
(or medium with a default of indeed adding the user....).
Karl (shadow package maintainer), can we find a solution to this ?
Otherwise, I highly fear dozens of reports like this as well as
"Debian sound does not work out of the box" for the upcoming reviews
of the next distribution release...
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