Sound problems
 

Hey all,

Just got my box up and running with slack 10.1..... everything was working great as root but when I created a user and logged in as them my sound quit working... I have scanned the forums looking for a solution to this and the only thing I found and tried to no avail was in Shilo's guide. (I typed in this as root "chmod 666 /dev/dsp*" "chmod 666 /dev/mixer*") Still don't have sound as a normal user.. although when I first start my x session It does play 2 seconds of the startup sound before cutting all sound off...


One thing I noticed this time too is that I only have sound as root if I go into alsamixer every time I boot up and turn off the muting.... I assume there is a command to get the mixer to store your last config? Anyway, help would be greatly appreciated at this point.


Signed
Struggling noob

Short answers that may help

Add your user to the group audio.

alsactl store as root

samac

alsactl store saved the settings for me and now logging in as root I always have sound... any quick way to add my user to the group audio????? Still a noob so dont know the commands for the groups yet.

Thanks for the reply

K guys.. think I found the problem but don't know how to fix it....

I did a ls -la /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer and both of those show up as root being the group owner. If I make my user a member of root I have audio.. but that is the same as running as the root user right?.. So how to I change the group ownership of /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer to audio?

Thanks in advance.

** Edit **

Alright.. I figured out how to change group ownerships and did so on the following

/dev/dsp
/dev/mixer
/dev/audio

Changed the ownership to audio then made myself a member of the audio group and still the same thing.. I have audio when I am root user.. but when I am normal user I have audio just for the startup (loading x) screen of my x session then when the desktop appears my audio no longer works....

Have you tried playing an audio file while in the console, logged in as a normal user? You say that you hear sound briefly for part of the x startup, and I would gather that if you can hear audio while in the console, the problem is with X or permission in X. It's strange that you would hear partial sound though, the problem might be during whatever stage of loadup is taking place, when the sound cuts out.

Wish I had more ideas, but I'm a noob too. =)