Hi! Anno domini 2021 Tue, 24 Aug 16:27:32 -0400 James D Freels scripsit: > Hello, > > I am a long-time debian and TDE user, and just recently upgraded my > buster amd64 machine to bullseye. As part of this upgrade, I also > switch from stable builds to the preliminary stable builds of TDE. For > example, tdm-trinity is versioned to read this: > 4:14.0.11~pre26-0debian11.0.0+7 . Essentially everything works as > expected so far. However, one very nagging problem I currently have is > that my sound does not work unless I am rooted. For example, if I issue > the command > > aplay bark.au > > where bark.au is a snippet sound file of a dog barking, it fails. > However, if I issue the command > > sudo aplay bark.au Is your user in group "audio"? If you don't know, what is the output of: $ groups $ ls -l /dev/snd Nik > > it works fine. Similar sound playing occurs with any sound-playing > app. For example mpg123, vlc, etc., all require a sudo or be logged in > as root to work. > > I have looked all around the WWW to try to find a solution to this > problem. The most common solution is to make sure that user ids are in > the audio group in the /etc/group configuration file. Of course, I have > that, and have confirmed it. This is not a brand new installation after > all, but an upgrade. > > Other common remedies I have tried are to fiddle with the pavucontrol > and alsamixer settings. My sound card does not show up in the > pavucontrol (pulse doesn't find my sound card), but DOES show up in the > alsamixer. > > I have also looked at the debian sound wiki, and other sources to try to > fix this problem. > > Then, I remembered that I often used this form to learn about debian way > back in the days when I first started using debian about 1994 or so. > Perhaps I can get some expert help. Maybe a source I can go down a list > of troubleshoot to nail this one down. It is obviously a permissions > issue (I also looked at device permissions, etc.). > > I am not sure if this is a debian/11/bullseye problem of a TDE problem, > so I have cross-posted this help request to the debian-user mailing list > as well (without the TDE information since it is not supported there). > > Just a bit puzzled and frustrated. > > P.S. > > BTW, my sound card is a C-Media, Xonor DG with chip set CMI8788 and uses > the oxygen HD audio driver. > > lspci -v output corresponding: > > 05:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 > [Oxygen HD Audio] > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. CMI8786 (Xonar DG) > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22, NUMA node 0 > I/O ports at e800 [size=256] > Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 > Kernel driver in use: snd_oxygen > Kernel modules: snd_oxygen > > Nothing has changed with the hardware, and I know the setup works. This > seems to be a permissions/software issue. > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
