Sound for Intrepid

[Larry Shields]

Paul Kaplan wrote:
> On Saturday 08 November 2008 07:29 Mario Vukelic wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 07:16 -0500, Paul Kaplan wrote:
>>     
>>> I had a machine that lacked sound for some users.  Turns out that no
>>> user was a member of the audio group.
>>>       
>> That would be the pulse* group(s)? I once read somewhere during the
>> alpha/beta phase of 8.04 (Hardy), when pulse was newly integrated, that
>> this was needed. But ...
>>     
>
> No...the audio group.  There is no pulse group on my freshly installed 
> Intrepid.
>   
>>> Adding everyone solved the problem.
>>>       
>> ... on my Hardy install, which was upgraded to Intrepid during beta, no
>> user is part of the pulse* groups (not even the initial user that was
>> created by the installer) and they all have sound nevertheless. Weird.
>> It's certainly worth a try for Larry.
>>     
>
>
>   
*There was pulse, pulse-access, pulse-rt, now I added sound, plus audio, 
which it did not have...

Also there are quite a few groups settings listed here on my system...

Larry
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