Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> writes: >> I am trying to make it work; so here is the update. >> >> I tried to experiment with my machine and found that if I plug-out and >> plug-in the USB sound card again, it is not shown by "aplay -l" command >> as normal user. But when I do "sudo aplay -l" it lists the USB >> device. But I am part of "audio" group. "groups" command output: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> ankaj@anant:~$ groups >> pankaj cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev bluetooth scanner >> docker >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> I don’t know what other configuration is required to list my card using >> "aplay -l" as a normal user? > > > You may need to give normal users added privileges. Or it may be that you > need to set your running group or user identity to something else in order > to use aplay effectively. Could that be the group named audio? > > See help for the newgrp command. Or just as you have done, try to craft the > right sudo command to invoke it the way you want. Then you could add a > shorthand to it in sudoers or create a shell alias accordingly. > > Or, not recommended, you could change the aplay executable or front-end to > it in order to make it a set[ug]id executable. >
It just upgraded my kernel using "make deb-pkg" in the upstream kernel and installed it. The sound problem is gone.