Hi James, try to run:
# alsactl init as root, reboot and adjust all channels with alsamixer or similar with your (non-root) user. Kind regards Georgi On 8/25/21 20:02, James D Freels wrote: > I have not received a response yet, but I am hoping. > > What I know: > > -sound works as root, not as user > > -snd_oxygen module (required driver for my card) is loaded, but I can't > verify what is loading it. no messages in dmesg show it being loaded > > -since snd_oxygen is loaded, it makes sense that aplay works as root > > -pulse does not show the sound card, but does show the hdmi audio on my > nvidia card, and the microphone on my web cam. Both are muted in > pavucontrol > > -big question: why doesn't sound card get loaded by pulseaudio ? How > can I force that > > -I am now going over every occurrence of a pulseaudio configuration file > on my system for a clue > > Any help appreciated. Is there a good troubleshoot procedure for > debian/11/bullseye sound problems ? > > > On 8/24/21 3:05 PM, James D Freels wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am a long-time debian user, and just recently upgraded my buster >> amd64 machine to bullseye. Essentially everything works as expected >> so far. However, one very nagging problem I currently have is that my >> sound does not work unless I am rooted. For example, if I issue the >> command >> >> aplay bark.au >> >> where bark.au is a snippet sound file of a dog barking, it fails. >> However, if I issue the command >> >> sudo aplay bark.au >> >> it works fine. Similar sound playing occurs with any sound-playing >> app. For example mpg123, vlc, etc., all require a sudo or be logged >> in as root to work. >> >> I have looked all around the WWW to try to find a solution to this >> problem. The most common solution is to make sure that user ids are >> in the audio group in the /etc/group configuration file. Of course, I >> have that, and have confirmed it. This is not a brand new >> installation after all, but an upgrade. >> >> Other common remedies I have tried are to fiddle with the pavucontrol >> and alsamixer settings. My sound card does not show up in the >> pavucontrol (pulse doesn't find my sound card), but DOES show up in >> the alsamixer. >> >> I have also looked at the debian sound wiki, and other sources to try >> to fix this problem. >> >> Then, I remembered that I often used this form to learn about debian >> way back in the days when I first started using debian about 1994 or >> so. Perhaps I can get some expert help. Maybe a source I can go down >> a list of troubleshoot to nail this one down. It is obviously a >> permissions issue (I also looked at device permissions, etc.). >> >> Just a bit puzzled and frustrated. >> >> P.S. >> >> BTW, my sound card is a C-Media, Xonor DG with chip set CMI8788 and >> uses the oxygen HD audio driver. >> >> lspci -v output corresponding: >> >> 05:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 >> [Oxygen HD Audio] >> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. CMI8786 (Xonar DG) >> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22, NUMA node 0 >> I/O ports at e800 [size=256] >> Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 >> Kernel driver in use: snd_oxygen >> Kernel modules: snd_oxygen >> >> Nothing has changed with the hardware, and I know the setup works. >> This seems to be a permissions/software issue. >> >> >>
