F20: No sound unless root ??

[sean darcy]

I'm trying to play some sound as a user. But pulseaudio can't find any 
outputs:

$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...

But, as root, aplay sees the integrated sound card:

# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT2020 Analog [VT2020 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: VT2020 Digital [VT2020 Digital]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 2: VT2020 Alt Analog [VT2020 Alt Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I'd just use root if I could, by pulseaudio doesn't like that.

sean

[sean darcy]

On 02/02/2015 03:10 PM, sean darcy wrote:
> I'm trying to play some sound as a user. But pulseaudio can't find any
> outputs:
>
> $ aplay -l
> aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...
>
> But, as root, aplay sees the integrated sound card:
>
> # aplay -l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT2020 Analog [VT2020 Analog]
>    Subdevices: 1/1
>    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: VT2020 Digital [VT2020 Digital]
>    Subdevices: 1/1
>    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 2: VT2020 Alt Analog [VT2020 Alt Analog]
>    Subdevices: 1/1
>    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>
> I'd just use root if I could, by pulseaudio doesn't like that.
>
> sean

OK, thanks to archwiki, solved this by adding the user to group audio

usermod -a -G audio [user]

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT2020 Analog [VT2020 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
.......

But pulseaudio still only has the dummy soundcard:

pacmd list-sinks
1 sink(s) available.
   * index: 0
............
    properties:
    	device.description = "Dummy Output"
    	device.class = "abstract"
    	device.icon_name = "audio-card"

Puzzled why this is so complicated.

sean

[Joonas Sarajärvi]

2015-02-02 22:18 GMT+02:00 sean darcy :
> On 02/02/2015 03:10 PM, sean darcy wrote:
> > I'm trying to play some sound as a user. But pulseaudio can't find any
> > outputs:
> >
> > $ aplay -l
> > aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...
> >
> > But, as root, aplay sees the integrated sound card:

How are you logged in in the system? My impression is that sound
devices in fedora are set up to be available to the user who is
physically present.

-Joonas

[sean darcy]

On 02/02/2015 03:23 PM, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote:
> 2015-02-02 22:18 GMT+02:00 sean darcy :
> > On 02/02/2015 03:10 PM, sean darcy wrote:
> > > I'm trying to play some sound as a user. But pulseaudio can't find any
> > > outputs:
> > >
> > > $ aplay -l
> > > aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...
> > >
> > > But, as root, aplay sees the integrated sound card:
>
> How are you logged in in the system? My impression is that sound
> devices in fedora are set up to be available to the user who is
> physically present.
>
> -Joonas

This should be remote user. I want to use it as a sound server from 
anywhere in the house.

This should be common use case. What's the trick to making it work, or 
does someone need to go the the basement each time ?

sean

[Rick Stevens]

On 02/02/2015 05:22 PM, sean darcy wrote:
> On 02/02/2015 03:23 PM, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote:
> > 2015-02-02 22:18 GMT+02:00 sean darcy :
> > > On 02/02/2015 03:10 PM, sean darcy wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to play some sound as a user. But pulseaudio can't find any
> > > > outputs:
> > > >
> > > > $ aplay -l
> > > > aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...
> > > >
> > > > But, as root, aplay sees the integrated sound card:
> >
> > How are you logged in in the system? My impression is that sound
> > devices in fedora are set up to be available to the user who is
> > physically present.
> >
> > -Joonas
>
> This should be remote user. I want to use it as a sound server from
> anywhere in the house.
>
> This should be common use case. What's the trick to making it work, or
> does someone need to go the the basement each time ?

The desktop install of Fedora should permit whomever is logged in at
the console to play audio. If you don't have a user logged in at the
console, then pulse is probably not even running since it's spawned
by the X session startup.

You can run pulse at boot as the root user to make it act like a sound
server, but you'll need to configure it to use various sinks as outputs.
Have a look at "man pulse-daemon.conf", "man default.pa" and
"man pulse-cli-syntax" for details on how to set that up.

If you want a media server (e.g. DLNA), then there are a number of
packages available such as minidlna and mediatomb (both available from
the repos).
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