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Title: no sound while in KDE desktop
Post by: rchamp on March 21, 2011, 05:31:12 AM

Hey everyone!

Just today i wanted to show someone a video, so I pulled up KDE desktop, copied over the video clip and low and behold, I got video fine, but got a message on both mplayer and vlc saying 'cannot initialize audio drivers'. Is there something disabled?

I also tried opening an mp3 that I have stored on the pc, and amarok threw me an error too.

Is this a known issue?

Title: Re: no sound while in KDE desktop
Post by: rchamp on March 21, 2011, 05:33:16 AM

wanted to also note that playing my mp3s through LMCE works flawlessy, BTW. standard audio in LMCE (movies, wizard, etc) works fine as well.

Title: Re: no sound while in KDE desktop
Post by: pw44 on March 21, 2011, 10:53:03 PM

become root and start the applications you want from it. sudo su and you have it.

Title: Re: no sound while in KDE desktop
Post by: rchamp on March 22, 2011, 04:07:01 PM

ahh ok. that's strange. is it because of the pluto integration?

Title: Re: no sound while in KDE desktop
Post by: phenigma on March 23, 2011, 08:03:45 PM

Add your username to the 'audio' group in /etc/group. Reboot the machine if you have already started KDE. You should have full audio capabilities now.

J.

Title: Re: no sound while in KDE desktop
Post by: rchamp on March 26, 2011, 10:38:51 PM

Will try that when I get back to the house. Many thanks

Title: Re: no sound while in KDE desktop
Post by: phenigma on March 27, 2011, 12:20:27 AM

There is a command which can do this for you:

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$ sudo usermod -a -G audio user_name

will add 'user_name' to the group 'audio'. Let us know how it goes.

J.

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