Sound only works in root.

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#1

When on a normal user it says dummy output audio and sound doesnt work. But when I’m on the root account it works and shows deplex audio.

Help?

EDIT: I may have solve my problem by putting the user into the audio group.

#2

nexx892 wrote:

> But when I’m on the root account it works

]>-=welcome=-<

logging in as ‘administrator’ in Win7/Vista/XP may be ok, but
logging in as root is not done (by most of the experienced and those
in the know) into Linux KDE/GNOME/etc…

cites, more info and why, see:

http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-runtime/userguide/root.html
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Login_as_root
http://tinyurl.com/ydbwssh
http://tinyurl.com/6ry6yd

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palladium

#3

Yes, give that a try. It may work. Post here if you still have a problem wrt this.

#4

There is a bug-report for this problem:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549991
Putting normal users in group audio is a security issue.

Marcus Meissner: “these permissions are done by ConsoleKit/HAL/DeviceKit framework these days, no
need for group membership.”