Re: Sound in Jessie
On 1/31/15, Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote:
>
> Anyway, it would be nice to have fully functional sound. My compute is
> a HP Pentium desktop several years old, nothing special, but it is the
> best computer I have ever had, so I expect to be keeping it thru the
> life of Jessie, and beyond.
>
> For now, I can, with adequate guidance, do testing of the new sound for
> today. Is there anything of interest to the developers who are working
> the sound system issues?
>
> The GStreamer message goes on to suggest:
> Some sound system specific GStreamer packages may be missing. It may
> also be a permissions problem.
>
> What is the package set that should be installed in Jessie? Maybe now
> is a good time to find out. Where should I look?
Hi, Paul, I don't have any help, any answers but couldn't help writing
after seeing the permissions thing. I never thought about that. I'm
running into that with something now for Sid. Root doesn't have
permissions for an apparent common installation activity, but I don't
think it's as simple as that. [EDIT: Then again, it might be?]
Sound not working because of permissions. My wvdial for dialup was
like that. I had a *_CHOICE_* of running wvdial as root which seemed a
really bad idea or of making some change to match the user which can
be done just as wrongly, too. Can't remember what I did, though. I
THINK I remember thinking it wasn't the wisest decision and that the
topic's on a mental *to-do* list to find the *RIGHT WAY* to make
wvdial work for a non-root user..
Groups memberships was one thing that honestly occurred to me for this
audio problem since I'm messing with groups while setting my stuff up
via debootstrap. It's amazing to me what our users need to be part of
for things to work properly. Does having to add users to a specific
group ring a bell with anyone related to audio? I'm feeling very
confident asking that because I've just quickly glanced over this
Ubuntu page that touches exactly that:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1324951&page=2&p=10741579#post10741579
The fix the user there suggested for the exact same error message was:
usermod -aG audio [user]
This thread is familiar. If you all already addressed that as a
possible solution last time, my apologies in advance. I figure
exposure to that we have to mess around with groups sometimes might
help a newer user anyway so repetition is a win in that respect. :)
Cindy :)
--
Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
* Sid and I are... having a family spat right now *
Reply to: