[SOLVED] Sound works well only in root session

pserru · 06-02-2015, 12:13 PM

Hello All,

My problem is described in the title. I have sound only while opening session as root. Otherwise, I read :
Xine could not use sound driver (or similar, in french)
or :
No sound card detected

kamix is opening but I can see that it is working as root.

An idea in which direction to look for ?

Thank you for the attention you paid to this post.

Pat

ardvark71 · 06-02-2015, 01:02 PM

Hi Pat...

Welcome to the forum

What distribution and version of Linux are you using? Sounds like a permissions issue.

Regards...

pserru · 06-02-2015, 01:34 PM

Thank you for your response,
Sorry about that, having just feed the form... I use openSuse 13.2, and KDE, but... KDE3 !
But I do not think there is a relation between my problem and the desk manager.
Sincerly
Pat

ardvark71 · 06-02-2015, 02:52 PM

Hi...

Try this option first and see if it works. If not, although claimed as a security risk, you can try the workaround mentioned here by adding your user account(s) into the audio group. To do this, see "Step 6" here.

Regards...

pserru · 06-02-2015, 07:45 PM

Hi All,

Thank you for your responses. I found the reason. It was because, for historical (bad) reasons, I was starting KDE3 with "kdm" instead of "init 5", and was doing it as root... It was the less bad solution, with my Oss 12.2 to start a X (and the famous nouveau driver) with my 1280x1024 full definition screen.

So, today, stating X with "init 5" as root, every thing are OK (well, I did not check all, but...)

Sincerly
Pat

ardvark71 · 06-02-2015, 09:24 PM

Hi Pat...

You're welcome, glad you got it working.

Regards...