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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: SDDM/KDE5: no sound card available?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 18:43:17
Message-Id: mooo7k$f53$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: SDDM/KDE5: no sound card available? by Jonathan Callen
1 On 22/07/2015 04:34 πμ, Jonathan Callen wrote:
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5 > On 2015-07-21 14:12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
6 >> I upgraded to KDE 5 recently, and was using LightDM as the display
7 >> manager. It seems that KDE 5 prefers SDDM though and offers a
8 >> config module for it in System Settings.
9 >>
10 >> So I installed SDDM. However, when I log in with SDDM, I get no
11 >> sound. My sound card just... disappears. "alsamixer -c0" says:
12 >>
13 >> invalid card index: 0".
14 >>
15 >> [...]
16 >
17 > Are you using systemd?
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19 Nope. I'm on OpenRC.
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22 > If not, did you build sddm with USE=consolekit and read the warning
23 > printed by portage?
24 >
25 > This display manager doesn't have native built-in ConsoleKit
26 > support. In order to use ConsoleKit pam module with this display
27 > manager, you should remove the "nox11" parameter from
28 > pm_ck_connector.so line in /etc/pam.d/system-login
29 >
30 > Your issue is most likely that your X session is not being treated as
31 > a login session by logind/ConsoleKit, and therefore your user is not
32 > being added to the ACLs on the various devices under /dev, including
33 > all sound devices, certain input devices, any CD/DVD/BR devices you
34 > may have, and certain video devices.
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36 I had tried that already. Didn't mention it because I thought this only
37 affects graphics.
38
39 Anyway, it changes nothing. Still no sound card, even after reboot.