Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

[Dekks Herton <dekkzz78@gmail.com>]

Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> writes:


> This ran for years with Debian 9. I upgrade to Debian 11 and hear
> nothing.  The usual advice is
>  (a) in /etc/crontab export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
>  (b) play the sound from a script.
>
> But that doesn't work with Debian 11. Does any reader of this list
> have sound coming from a Debian 11 cron job?  If so, how is it done?
>
> Roger

What kernel is 11 running? are you using a Haswell or Broadwell CPU?

Regards.....