I cannot execute alsamixer form the terminal without sudo

Started by vctrejo, Sun Oct 01 01:16:57 2017

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vctrejo

Hi there,

First thanks for creating such a simple distribution.

I'm trying to configure the system using xfce4 and I noticed I cannot run the Audio Mixer from the icon on xcfe4.  I'm getting: "...GStreamer was unable to detect any sound devices....". I cannot also run alsamixer from the cli without using sudo in front of it. When I log in as a root everything works fine.

I also noticed that the user name it not being shown on xfce4 when I log in with the regular user. This does not happen when running xfce logged as root. DO i have some permission issue with the regular user?

Thanks.

Thierry

Thanks for all yours feedbacks.

QuoteI cannot run the Audio Mixer from the icon on xcfe4
The Xfce4 audio mixer is for me a bit buggy, try to install all the gstreamer-* packages. it might help.

Quotecannot also run alsamixer from the cli without using sudo

Yes that's somehow a consolekit issue (I think) , to get rid of this, I need to find the topic that's solve the issue, I will come back.