sound problem in 8.10

[Paul Kaplan]

It's true, no one was a member of the audio group.  In any case, adding 
everyone to that group seems to have solved the problem.
Thanks,
P
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 15:35 Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 November 2008 19:34, pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
> > No. There's no pulse group on my system; does it have another name or is
> > it somehow hidden from the user admininistration dialog? There's an audio
> > group. No user is a member, but remember that the user created during
> > installation has working sound. Paul
>
> What you say above doesn't make sense on a Debian based install. You say
> there is an audio group, but no user is a member of it. I think the first
> thing I'd do is to add your users to the audio group in /etc/group. users
> are comma separated as below.
> audio:x:29:groucho,chico,harpo
>
> Nigel.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Fox" <dfox94085 at gmail.com>
> > To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> > <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 1:15:52
> > PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: sound problem in 8.10
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Paul Kaplan <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > There's no such group on my system. Also I verified that all users are
> > > members of the same groups.
> >
> > There's a pulse group, maybe that's it.