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EDIT: The bug concerning groups was caused by an xzm package (slocate - it overwrote it), not porteus, so please ignore.
Audio problems - while playing video in pepperflash (google's flash plugin):
[Porteus LXDE 3rc1 64bit here - probably other flavors are affected too]
-video plays but no sound, while correct sound card is being set as default. The default flash player works fine.
Fix:
-add audio/video user groups (optionally add current users to those groups, but not obligatory, since the simple group creation fixes it)
(P.S. its possible that missing groups also causes other audio problems mentioned - needs testing... video group, while not relevant to audio problems, is required by some programs in order to enable hw acceleration)
Slackbuilds complains threre is no group named "root", when trying to set permissions.
Fix: Add explicitly group "root" with gid==0 (or edit each .Slackbuild to set permissions to root:0 instead of root:root - might get annoying if building lots of packages)
Summary:
Proposed changes to /etc/group: adding
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root:x:0:root
audio:x:1000:root
video:x:1001:root
(add guest to above code - and/or other users - too if not running porteus as root)
with these fixes audio and video hw acceleration works fine everywhere for me .
Cheers and thx for a good release!
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PPS I can confirm that mplayer has some codec issues, while playing some video formats, tested on these:
http://www.auby.no/files/video_tests/, but I guess that is a know issue.
PPPS Also confirming random disappearing of lxpanel's menu.