Never mind, I see that information is already there. I feel pretty silly
now. Sorry about the noise.

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:59 PM Don Cross <[email protected]> wrote:

> When I built alsa-lib and alsa-utils from the BLFS instructions, audio
> just didn't work. Then I noticed that "aplay -L" would produce a null list
> from my own user account, but would show the correct list of PCMs while
> logged in as root. I fixed this problem by adding my user account to the
> audio group:
>
> sudo usermod -aG audio $USER
>
> I had to log out and back in for the fix to take effect. After this,
> "aplay -L", and all the other audio functionality (speaker-test, mpg123,
> etc.) worked fine from my normal user account.
>
> It would be helpful to include the above command in:
> http://linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/multimedia/alsa-lib.html
>
> At least, this is the case on my sysvinit build of BLFS. Some stuff I read
> online made me think this isn't needed with systemd, but I'm not sure I
> understood correctly.
>
> I'm learning a lot doing all this stuff. I'm glad LFS/BLFS is available.
> Thanks!
> - Don
>
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