Still no sound as user...only root

**rrfish72** · 09-23-2004, 05:00 AM

There are no system sounds when I log into my account. Tried to change in the Control Center but that did not change anything. Why does root have control over these sounds?
How do I get the sound in a user account?

**shah** · 09-23-2004, 05:09 AM

try change permissin to folder /dev.

**rrfish72** · 09-23-2004, 05:18 AM

What do I change? /dev has about 200 folders. Don't know how to change permissions.

**shah** · 09-23-2004, 05:29 AM

Use file manager-super user mode, go to that folder,right click on it---->properties--->permission tab-->advanced permission--->user-->tick on all three boxes.

Make sure in kde control center-->sound and multimedia--->sound system---->tick on enable sound system, then test sound.
If sound didn't produced, you might want to look into hardware tab, and change it.
You might want to configure your Sytem notification.

**rrfish72** · 09-23-2004, 05:43 AM

Before I do all that. Test sound already works.

**shah** · 09-24-2004, 01:33 AM

Sorry, I cannot answer earlier, I can't seem to enter this site yesterday. This site looks like crashed yesterday.
Because you can hear the test sound, then everything is okay.

You only need to set sound in system notification, under sound & multimedia.
Select turn on all for sound that you select.

If this doesn't work, you can choose to use external player, under player settings, tick use external player, and search for aplayer. Be carefull on using external player because after you set it, it will greyed out and you can't change it again within control center. You only can change it manually by editing knotifyrc file.
Good luck

**rrfish72** · 09-24-2004, 11:14 PM

Still nothing. Did the external player thing with kplayer and checked the knot.. file and it was set with kplayer. Is there maybe another external player I could try?

**CrashedAgain** · 09-25-2004, 12:06 AM

have you set /home/knoppix/.kde/share/config/knotifrc to all settings true?

Code:

[Misc]
LastConfiguredApp=The KDE Window Manager

[StartProgress]
Arts Init=true
KNotify Init=true
Use Arts=true

**nishtya** · 09-25-2004, 01:11 AM

for external player try aplay (if any event sounds are oggs though you will get an awful noise). Depending upon your arts configuration you can also try artsplay for external

**maddeneye** · 09-25-2004, 01:59 AM

Perhaps user is not in audio group

$ cat /etc/group | grep audio

If user is not listed, add user to audio group (as root)

# adduser username audio

log off and log on again to check. Perhaps that will do it.