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I hope this is a quick question. I set up a new user account on my Slackware 11 box for my wife. Everything worked fine except that there's no sound when logged into her account and running KDE.
I hope this is a quick question. I set up a new user account on my Slackware 11 box for my wife. Everything worked fine except that there's no sound when logged into her account and running KDE.
I'm pretty sure I added her to the sound group.
Do I need to run alsamixer for that account?
Any tips on trouble shooting are appreciated.
Thanks,
-Drew
Hi,
Did you run 'alsamixer' as root then 'aslactl store'?
The group you need is "audio", not sure if this is what you meant or not.
1) Make sure sound works as root. If not run alsaconf.
2) Make sure the user has group "audio"
3) Make sure the sound is not turned down/muted
4) Some sound cards have a digital output switch in the mixer make sure it is set correctly.
Yes, I meant "audio" for the group. And no, nothing is muted, but that's a good thing to check.
Strangely, I have sound only as my unprivileged user. It doesn't work as root as either. I suspect that I ran alsaconf as me instead of as root (or I did it through su).
I'll try running alsoconf as root and see if that helps.
Thanks for getting back to me. I've not made any headway on this problem because I was too busy enjoying the nice weather in Pennsylvania this weekend.
I'll post back with the lsmod | grep snd results this evening.
In the meantime, I'm using the default 2.4 Slackware 11 Kernel.
I'm also investigating the tips in this post over at the Human readable blog:
Eventually I discovered two troubling files: kmixrc and kmixctrlrc. I discovered those two files by modifying the profile and then using the KFind tool to report all files modified in the past one minute. Those two files were listed and I began investigating. On a hunch I deleted the files from my testing user profile and then started KDE with that user account. No sound problems. Those two files were a contributing culprit to all or some of my sound troubles.
So I'm going to check for those two files and see what happens. I'll post my results.
Hi,
Did you run 'alsamixer' as root then 'aslactl store'?
After all my poking around this did turn out to be the problem. I had muted something with the alsamixer that shouldn't have been. I didn't see it until I looked again today
Thanks for the replies, folks. The problem is solved.
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