audio access

Reinhold Rumberger rrumberger at web.de
Tue Jun 8 16:45:00 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 08 June 2010, xPol wrote:
> Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > In that case I'm guessing they're accessing the X session via
> > DISPLAY=':0' or something similar?
> 
> That should be properly set, since graphic applications work for
> every users.
> 
> Maybe other applications work, however videos from youtube play
> with no sound, if the user is not the owner of the kdm session

I just played a video from vt3 using xine. Worked like a breeze.

> > Because that works perfectly here, just make sure they are in
> > the "audio" group...
> 
> I have no audio group. Should i?

Are you sure? They aren't in alphabetical order. You can check with 
the following command:
grep audio /etc/group

I have one, and if the user isn't in it, they can't play audio...
see /dev/snd/

  --Reinhold




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