Re: Soundcard works for one account but not others

["Colin Cotter" <colinjcotter@gmail.com>]

Super advice, thanks to all!

all the best

--cjc

On 15/04/07, Franklin PIAT <franklin@piat.name> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 12:09 +0400, sm00th_trac3r wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 08:49:47AM +0100, Colin Cotter wrote:
> > > Dear List,
> > >  I have an odd problem with sound on my laptop. It works for my
> > > account, but not that of my wife (bad for Linux advocacy :-[ ). For
> > > example, her volume control has a red cross on it and says that
> > >
> > > Does anybody have any suggestions on how to fix this?
> > Try adding your wife's account to "audio" group.
>
> BTW, The first account created during debian installation is
> automatically granted certains "privileges" (i.e added to groups).
>
> So there are other groups that could be useful to your wife..
> Under gnome menu Desktop/Administration/Users and Groups.
> Select your account, click on properties, then "User Privileges" tab.
>
> Then compare your profile and your wife's one.