On 12/1/20 1:14 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
I also wasted a lot of time this morning trying to prove to myself that that computer still was able to produce sound somehow, it did not! I found a working Fedora-30 on a third hard drive, unfortunately the audio problem is the same on everything I tried, F30 and with ab E32 live on a flash drive I had.
That definitely suggests a hardware problem.
The best solution may turn out to be a different motherboard. I will consider that ...
You can get really cheap USB sound devices now.