Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 14:23 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
I got no answer to my question about sound in f8 working only as root,
so let me ask the question a different way.
This could only happen if some vital component in processing sound has
the wrong permissions. Could any one suggest what that component could
be? This is very frustrating.
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Aaron;
I've had similar issues in the past. Often it turns out to be a local user
config issue.
Try creating a new user and see if the new user has sound. If so, (if you're
running KDE) you can sometimes get away with removing the .config directory
in the user's HOME directory (the user with no sound) and then log out & log
back in. If this doesn't help then you may have success by archiving all the
bad user's $HOME dir files, deleting this user, then re-create the user and
migrate the $HOME files as needed.
Of course this all assumes that creating a new user results in that new user
(non-root) having access to sound.
/Kevin
tried a new user. still no sound.
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Aaron,
I tried to remove pulseaudio, but was unsuccessful in restoring system
sounds. Only apps that could specify alsa worked. I re-installed
pulseaudio and just accepted the issue with one app that I use.
