On Monday, January 16, 2012 6:22pm, "Bob Goodwin"
<bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net> said:
On 16/01/12 16:40, Steve Snyder wrote:
> On Monday, January 16, 2012 4:27pm, "Bob
Goodwin"<bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net> said:
>> On 15/01/12 15:56, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>> I have two hard drives, only one available sata connection.
>>> F-15 on the first drive has sound and works as expected with
>>> that drive plugged in. The new install of F-16 on the second
>>> drive has no sound, Alsa reports "no available device."
As
>>> near as I can tell Pulseaudio is working but simply does not
>>> "see" the sound circuit, part of the motherboard.
>>>
>>> PAVC can only select "Dummy Output" in both the input
and
>>> output device tabs. "Configuration" reports "No
cards
>>> available for configuration."
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me troubleshoot this, I've been messing with
>>> this problem for a while and it always comes back to the
"no
>>> available device" problem. I can apply inputs but get
>>> nothing out.
>>>
>>> Bob
>> Running "alsa-info.sh" on both the working F-15 system and
the
>> not working F-16 system produces an output with a large amount
>> of data missing in this area as below:
> Make sure that the user you're testing as is a member of the "audio"
group.
>
> E.g..: usermod -G audio myidentity
>
>
>
That appears to have enabled the sound circuits although that
was not set in F-15/32. In F-16 it makes a big difference so
apparently something is being done differently.
Thanks much for the advice.
BTW, same goes for video:
usermod -G audio,video myidentity
I feel a rant coming on, so I'll just leave it at that.