No Sound on Dapper Drake

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> No matter what I have tried, there IS no sound in Dapper on my PC.
> (Except when Signing in)
>
> Whilst playing a DVD in WinPX , ( it hurts) a little green window
> appeared with the name " Audio LPCM". Now checking
> in Google, there turns out to be a version for linux. Though Ubuntu is
> not mentioned, but BSD is. Would this be a proposition
> for download and installation in Dapper ?
>
> There are toooo many techo details in it for me, so may I have your
> opinions on this.
> My Pc is a Asus P5LD2 and the sound thingy is a HDA Intel and --- the
> sound test page does
> not work.

This is something that has stumped me in the past, and it comes down to a very 
simple setting that Ubuntu doesn't make obvious enough.

The user account that you create when you install Ubuntu has access to most 
hardware devices by default. Subsequent users, however, are only given 
limited access. This is for security, and is easily changed: go to the Users 
and Groups utility in the GNOME System menu, open the user that you wish to 
edit, and tick the box to grant them access to audio. This process needs to 
be performed by a user that has administrative (sudo) access, like the 
account that you created when installing Ubuntu.


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