gnome-sound-properties empty "Default sound card:" list

Thanks for your bug. What does "asoundconf list" list?

I had the same problem of no indication of a default sound card in the "Sound Preferences" menu. I solved this by adding the name of the current user to the list of users in the audio group, in the file "/etc/group". Suggestion: should this not be done automatically when adding new users with "useradd"?

useradd is not supposed to put the user into any group, it's a very low-level tool. If you add users with the 'Users and groups' gnome tool, they will get the 'desktop' profile by default which includes audio access.

Also, this is not an issue in Feisty any more since the default sound card selector disappeared entirely.

Thanks for the info.

Peter Dietz

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 18:10 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote:

> Also, this is not an issue in Feisty any more since the default sound
> card selector disappeared entirely.
>
> ** Changed in: control-center (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
>

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 18:10 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote:

> useradd is not supposed to put the user into any group, it's a very low-
> level tool. If you add users with the 'Users and groups' gnome tool,
> they will get the 'desktop' profile by default which includes audio
> access.
>
> ** Changed in: control-center (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Medium => Low
> Status: Needs Info => Confirmed
>