General guidelines on getting sound to work
- Ok! So your audio is not working when you login as normal user.
Are you sure it doesn't work? Try turning up the volume first -- both on your speakers and in Linux. You can use the volume control in your desktop panel, or the sound mixer application in your applications menu, or run alsamixer or aumix in a terminal.
- Login as root and see if the sound works for the root account.
- If sound works for root account but not for a normal user, then you need to add the user to the audio group. This can be done by running the command
adduser your_user_name audio
- As root. Or use the users and groups settings application. You need to log out of the user account and log back in to see the effect of the above command. To check whether a given user is in audio group or not use the id command. For example on my system, this is the output of the id command.