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WvR
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Location: Tsuruga, Japan
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 Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 12:48 am Post subject: Added new user to system, user has no sound ?!? |
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I have a laptop running Gentoo, and I've been using this for 3 years without any problems. I recently added a new user to the system:
| Code: | | useradd -m -G users,wheel,audio -s /bin/bash NEW_USER |
So now I have two users on the system, one user account has been around for three years and the other account is new. The strange thing is: if I log in with the newly created user account, there is no sound! Everything else works just fine, but the new user does not have sound....
I checked the group membership of the new user and set them up to be the same as the existing user:
| Code: | vincent ~ # groups OLD_USER
wheel audio cdrom usb portage games OLD_USER
vincent ~ # groups NEW_USER
wheel audio cdrom usb users portage games NEW_USER |
I use gnome. When I go to "settings -> audio", the following shows up:
OLD_USER: HDMI/DisplayPort __and__ Builtin Speaker; Builtin Speaker produces sound (set to HDMI -> no sound)
NEW_USER: HDMI/DisplayPort __only__
- sound works for OLD_USER: the system is set up correctly for sound
- sound does not work for NEW_USER
- the difference must be a "user setting" - but which one? Any tips are appreciated. |
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Schnulli
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Joined: 25 Jun 2010
Posts: 320
Location: Bremen DE
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| Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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emerge --sync
and update Alsa / Pulseaudio and whatever , should fix it
Dont forget to konfigure than ur Sound device and HDMI etc.
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WvR
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Location: Tsuruga, Japan
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 12:00 am Post subject: |
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| I have determined it is a hardware problem. If I switch users, and user #1 is using the sound card (for example, with totem, audacious, or flash player) then if user #2 logs in, user #2 has no sound. If user #1 first closes all the multimedia applications user #2 has sound. This is either a hardware problem (hardware does not accept more than one connection) or a problem with drivers and/or mutex settings. Anyway, now I just make sure to close all the multimedia applications before other users log in. |
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Syl20
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Location: France
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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| It seems your sound card doesn't have a hardware mixer. So, with ALSA, you have to use the dmix plugin, which is a software mixer. |
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