Re: No sound for non-root users
--- John Halton <johnhalton@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/10/06, Andrew Schulman <andrex@alumni.utexas.net> wrote:
> > > The sound has stopped working for regular, non-root users on my
> > > installation of Debian Etch (on a Dell PC with integrated Intel audio
> > > chipset).
> > >
> > > Sound still works for root (or using sudo), but when I try to run an
> > > audio program as an ordinary user (eg mplayer, alsamixer), I get an
> > > error saying, "No such device" or similar. All users are members of the
> > > "audio" group.
> >
> > ls -l /dev/dsp /dev/audio to check that both of those devices belong to
> the
> > 'audio' group.
> >
>
> The problem appears to be resolved now. Deleting one user appeared to
> have removed all other users from the audio group for some reason.
> Adding the users back in didn't make the sound work again immediately,
> but then I happened to reboot and the sound had come back again. Just
> one of those things I guess...
The reason that sound came back only after the reboot is that adding a user
to a group does not take effect until you exit the user and logon again.
Rebooting took care of that.
Marc Shapiro
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