No sound -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 15/02/12 11:40, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 15/02/12 04:19, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>> On 14/02/12 20:56, stan wrote:
>>> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:05:28 -0500
>>> Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin at wildblue.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>      I have two F-16/64 bit computers that have sound problems. The
>>>>      second one has no sound at all.
>>
>>>
>>> Beyond that, you need someone knowledgeable in PA, and that isn't me.
>>
>>    I thank you for your help.
>>
>>    Bob
>
>    As shown in Patrick Dupre's thread "sound" I did:
>
>        setfacl -m u:bobg:rw /dev/snd/*
>
>    Which restores sound to operation until the system is rebooted when
>    the command must be repeated again as root. Obviously there is still
>    something amiss.
>
>    Another thing I notice is when I do "groups" on this computer:
>
>        [bobg at box6 ~]$ groups
>        bobg uucp dialout video audio nobody pulse-access nfsnobody
>
>    but on the other computer with the no sound problem:
>
>        [bobg at box9 ~]$ groups
>        bobg pulse-access
>
>    And I added pulse-access from the Users and Groups GUI. It would not
>    let me add "audio" protesting that there was already an group
>    "audio" although it is not shown in the GUI?
>
>    The more I do with this the more apparent my ignorance is. I suppose
>    I could try re-installing pulseaudio as suggested earlier but then
>    the next step will be re-installing F-16 which is hardly progress
>    since that means another day spent getting it configured, updated,
>    and needed applications installed with my limited bandwidth, aargh!
>
>    Suggestions ?
>
>    Bob

    I found that I could expose "hidden" groups under preferences and
    was able to add bobg to the audio group. I rebooted and audio
    apparently works! Need to test further but some progress at last.

    Bob