Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and amixer

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:06:44AM -0400, covici@××××××××××.com wrote
> Hi.  Since I booted into systemd, if I try to run amixer from a normal
> user I get very different results than if I run amixer as root.  The
> directory /dev/snd  is  world rw and I would like to know what is
> happening.  The numbers are very different for instance the Master
> volume as a regular user is 100%, but as root  its 40% where it should
> be.
>
> Thanks in advance for any  suggestions.

  Is /var/lib/alsa/asound.state world readable?  If not, regular users
may get some default value.  On my system...

[d531][waltdnes][~] ll /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7749 May 28 17:32 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications