[MPlayer-users] `user2' cannot listen to audio

[Rodolfo Medina]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> On my Debian Sarge box there are two users, let's call them user1 and user2.
>> Strangely, user1 can watch and hear fine, whereas user2 after entering X
>> environment cannot hear audio with Mplayer.
>>
>> Does anybody have any idea about that?
> Both users belong to `audio', `video' and `cdrom' groups.  user1 is the one
> that installed mplayer: maybe it's because of that?  The `configure' step was
> performed in user1's home directory.
>
> How to work the problem out - to allow user2 to hear audio as well?


Ivo <ivop at euronet.nl> writes:

> Perhaps user2 has bad volume control default settings, muting the device or 
> setting the volume to zero (like kmix under kde, gnome probably has 
> something similar).



Some more testing shows that the problem occurs only when user2 logs into X
window system.  Any hint about how to work it out?

Rodolfo