F-16/64 bit no sound -

[Steve Snyder]

On Monday, January 16, 2012 6:22pm, "Bob Goodwin" <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> said:

> On 16/01/12 16:40, Steve Snyder wrote:
>> On Monday, January 16, 2012 4:27pm, "Bob Goodwin"<bobgoodwin at 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.