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v3ct0r 09-10-2013 03:24 AM

Cannot play sound under DE
 
Hey guys, I got this sound issue on archlinux.I have this problem for a long time and I really dont know why.
I will display my situation really carefully:
1:I have installed alsa-utils.
2: I can invoke alsamixer under tty(any user).
3: root can invoke alsamixer under a desktop environment and this super user can play sound without any pressure.
4: a normal user, however, can invoke alsamixer under tty but not under a DE, no sound output either.
the output is :
Code:

alsa cannot open mixer: no such file or directory
In addition:
I have tried several desktop, wm, such as kde xfce and awesome. I got same result.
some guys say that I need to add user to audio group, but it didnt work. As arch wiki says, local user needn't added into audio group.

Can anybody help me on this? Really apreciate for your help

jv2112 09-10-2013 04:56 AM

Are you a member of the 'audio' group ? Sounds like a permission issue.

v3ct0r 09-10-2013 07:03 AM

Re:jv2112
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by jv2112 (Post 5025146)
Are you a member of the 'audio' group ? Sounds like a permission issue.

I hope it is a permission problem, I just added myusr in audio group by
Code:

gpasswd -a myusr audio
Do I need to do reboot or do something else?
Appreciate your help.

jv2112 09-12-2013 04:06 AM

I don't believe so but it couldn't hurt.

zhjim 09-12-2013 07:19 AM

Groups are provided at login. So changes to the groups of a logged in user don't take immediate effect. Also no need for reboot, just logout and back in again.


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