F20: No sound unless root ??

sean darcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 20:10:35 UTC 2015


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



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