On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:06:44AM -0400, cov...@ccs.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 -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications