switch user with sound?

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Location: Munich - Germany

Friday, March 25th 2005, 5:10pm

Hi,

I have KDE 3.3.0 (SuSE 9.2), when I use the "switch user" feature, the new user does not have any sound.

Only the user who logs in first has access to the sound system.

Is it possible to configure alsa or kde in a way that 2 users have access to the sound system?

Thanks,
Cord

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sleepkreep

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Posts: 9

Location: Murfreesboro, TN

Occupation: Linux/Unix Systems Admin for Middle Tennessee State University

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Friday, April 8th 2005, 9:10am

RE: switch user with sound?

I had the same problem. The problem is in the permissions of /dev/dsp0. First, make sure that all users are part of the audio group (by default they are not) and second change the permissions of /dev/dsp0 to read and right for all groups.

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cbielke

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Location: Munich - Germany

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Friday, April 8th 2005, 11:09am

RE: switch user with sound?

Yes, that helped.

To make this the default behaviour I changed /etc/logindevperm.

In lines
:0 0600 /dev/dsp:/dev/dsp0:/dev/dsp1:/dev/dsp2:/dev/dsp3
and
:0 0600 /dev/mixer:/dev/mixer0:/dev/mixer1:/dev/mixer2:/dev/mixer3

0600 to 0660

Thank you,
Cord

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JianWa

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Tuesday, September 12th 2006, 7:19am

RE: switch user with sound?

I don't have that file with Fedora 5 and KDE 3.5... so how do I resolve this?

Quoted

Originally posted by cbielke
Yes, that helped.

To make this the default behaviour I changed /etc/logindevperm.

In lines
:0 0600 /dev/dsp:/dev/dsp0:/dev/dsp1:/dev/dsp2:/dev/dsp3
and
:0 0600 /dev/mixer:/dev/mixer0:/dev/mixer1:/dev/mixer2:/dev/mixer3

0600 to 0660

Thank you,
Cord