Lost sound and video input - kubuntu 7.10

[Bruce Bales]

On Thursday 10 January 2008 15:23:21 Derek Broughton wrote:
> Colin Pinkney wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 Jan 2008, Bruce Bales wrote:
> >> I think the problem began about the time I tried to add my name to the
> >> geneweb group.  (That didn't work, but geneweb is working for me.)
>
> Ding!
>
> You used usermod and forgot the -a option.
>
> # sudo usermod -a -G geneweb bruce
>
> adds the group "geneweb" to your secondary groups.
>
> # sudo usermod -G geneweb bruce
>
> _makes_ "geneweb" your secondary group
>
> That's one of the stupidest default options I've ever seen, but I've been
> forced to do it a lot recently, because I've somehow b0rked the KDE user
> maintenance program (of course, fixing kuser might be a good idea...).
> --
> derek

And thanks to you, Derek.  I believe I tried 

sudo usermod -G -a geneweb bruce 
first and it complained about "No group -a" so I tried 

sudo usermod -G geneweb bruce 

I managed to do it on both my kubuntu 7-10 machines.

bruce