On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:58 AM, Kent West <we...@acu.edu> wrote: > I recently dist-upgraded my Buster/Sid box, and lost: >
> - audio as a normal user. > > ... have no audio when I log into X as a normal user (or at least as my > normal user; now that I think about it, I'll try as a different normal user > as soon as I get this email sent off). > I tried a different user, and that user also has no audio. > In both X11/Cinnamon and X11/Plasma Desktop, the audio button on the panel > shows "Dummy Output" as the audio device when I log into X as my normal > user. I added my user to the "audio" group and logged out/in and tried > again; no change. > > I then Ctrl-Alt-F1'd to TT1, logged in as root, "systemctl stop sddm", and > "startx &" as root, and the DM was a simpler DM (maybe XFCE? maybe LXDE? it > wasn't obvious, at least to me) > It was XFCE. > So audio works for root, but not for my normal user (even after being > added to the "audio" group). > -- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
