Lost sound and video input - kubuntu 7.10

[Bruce Bales]

On Thursday 10 January 2008 15:41:19 Colin Pinkney wrote:
> On Thursday 10 Jan 2008, Bruce Bales wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 January 2008 14:40:53 Colin Pinkney wrote:
> > > groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(vid
> > >eo ), 46
> > > (plugdev),100(users),104(scanner),112(netdev),113(lpadmin),115(powerdev
> > >), 11 8 (admin)
> > >
> > > You need to be in the audio and video groups for all these audio/video
> > > applications to work and if they're missing when you enter the 'id'
> > > command then this is your problem.
> > >
> > > To correct it at the command line you can type a series of commands
> > > like this (assuming 'bruce' is your actual username):
> > >
> > > sudo adduser bruce audio
> > > sudo adduser bruce video
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Alternatively you can open the System Settings in KDE and click User
> > > Management, switch to Administrator Mode (bottom right) and modify your
> > > user account to include these groups as secondary groups.
> >
> > Yes, that did it.  Thank you very much.  I have been using linux for
> > almost nine years, exclusively for seven years and I have never heard of
> > secondary groups.  I'll bet that ntp hasn't been working for the same
> > reason.
> >
> > Is there any danger in adding myself to any group that looks likely
> > in /etc/group ?  I see mysql, geneweb, admin, saned.  Would there be a
> > list somewhere?
> > bruce
>
> /etc/group is the complete list of user groups on your system AFAIK and
> also stored who belongs to which. However, you should use 'adduser' or the
> User Management screen in System Settings to modify which groups you are
> in.
>
> If you make your groups list match the ones I listed above (plus the group
> with the same name as your username) then everything on your system should
> in theory work ok.
>
> --
> Colin Pinkney
> http://www.cpinkney.org.uk

Thanks again, Colin.  My education continues.
bruce