Hi Jude, debian users, * Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> [18. Jan. 2016]: >>This is astonishing, because my main user is in >> >>$ groups >>grfz cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev lpadmin >>bluetooth scanner >> >>being in group audio should be enough. >> >> >>Actually I do hear music ATM with ncmpcpp/mpd and: >> >>$ sudo groups mpd >>mpd : audio >> >>So mpd plays music with permissions from group audio but I cannot >>play a wav file or hear the sound of a movie!?
> That could be a different problem. Check entries in .mailcap and .mimetypes > for the user account. The audio entries may not match what's in root's > files and that may be a contributor to this problem. I couldn't play web > files with the lynx browser until I adjusted those files and now that's > possible. Thanks for the suggestion, but I did my tests on the command line: aplay ~/Downloads/tuxok.wav works works but only when invocated as root I hear the sound. No sound as user in group audio. And ATM I hear musik from mpd (group audio). Ciao, Gregor -- -... --- .-. . -.. ..--.. ...-.-