no sound while in KDE desktop

[rchamp]

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?

[rchamp]

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

[pw44]

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

[rchamp]

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

[phenigma]

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.

[rchamp]

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

[phenigma]

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.