Re: no sound when logged as user

[David Pye <d.m.pye@herts.ac.uk>]

Hi :)
How's that for a quick response?

It's not a KDE issue, as you guessed, but anyways:

Look at /dev/audio, which should be your sound device.
It should be:

crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   4 2002-03-14 21:51 /dev/audio

This means unless you're root, OR a member of the audio group, you can't write 
to it. The best way to do this is to add the user/users in question to the 
audio group ie

usermod -G audio <username>

If you really don't care about permissions, you *can* make /dev/audio 
read/writable by anyone, although on a multiuser system, this has some 
security issues (people listening through your microphone, or playing audio 
at 3am to wake you up?)

David

On Wednesday 23 April 2003 19:49, Jay Latham wrote:
> I installed debian 3.0r1 onto a desktop and a laptop and have the same
> problem with both...when loggen in as a user I have no sound. I know it's a
> permission problem (at least I think I do), but don't know where to look.
>
> I know this question has been asked but I couldn't find it in the archives.
> How do I set the permissions for sound to all users?  When logged on as
> root everything works fine.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Jay