On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 09:29:54 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:23:32 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > This is for a normal user. Curiously, with the root account, > > > the sound works perfectly (I already saw that behaviour some time ago) > > > So, instead of "firefox", I run "sudo /usr/bin/firefox" > > > > Can you check if "normal user" is part of audio group ? > > > > HTH > > > yes, it is.
Being in the audio group is unnecessary and actually redundant. You could check the ACLs on /dev/snd/*. brian@desktop:~$ ls -l /dev/snd/* crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Dec 17 22:29 /dev/snd/controlC0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Feb 28 13:11 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Mar 14 17:55 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Dec 17 22:29 /dev/snd/pcmC0D1c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Dec 17 22:29 /dev/snd/pcmC0D1p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 1 Dec 17 22:29 /dev/snd/seq crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Dec 17 22:29 /dev/snd/timer /dev/snd/by-path: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Dec 17 22:29 pci-0000:00:11.5 -> ../controlC0 brian@desktop:~$ getfacl /dev/snd/controlC0 getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: dev/snd/controlC0 # owner: root # group: audio user::rw- user:brian:rw- group::rw- mask::rw- other::--- -- Brian.
