I'll give it a try. But I learned during the
original problem I
had with sound,
root uses a completely different sound scheme than normal users in
TDE. root
makes use of alsa-raw which bypasses a bulk of the user sound
config, so it may
work fine and still not be a permission issue.
If true then file a bug report. There should be no reason why root
should use arts differently than non-root users.
Since this is virtualbox, I'll just create users
doug, sally, ben
and jerry and have totally different profiles :)
At this point I say stop and test with real hardware. Virtual
machines work great for many things, but your particular problem
needs to be resolved with real hardware. Get a second machine,
create a second partition. I use all of the above for testing.
Darrell