Hey Y'all,
This morning my wife complained that she had no sound when she was
logged on to my machine. I logged on to her account and brought up
System/Preferences/Sound to see if she had inadvertently selected some
other sound output device. Hey, it happens. There was no sound
hardware detected. I have a USB microphone and an integrated on board
sound card. Neither of these sound devices were available on the
Hardware, Input, or Output tabs.
I have access to all these devices when I log on as myself.
This system has been running smoothly since I installed CentOS 6.1 all
those many years ago when that was the current point release. Now that
6.6 is out I'm seeing issues with video, fixed already, sound, not fixed
already, and my web cam which I have yet to ask for help with. I'm not
saying this sound problem has anything to do with 6.6.
Does anyone have any idea where I can start looking to figure out what's
going on with my wife's sound hardware detection?
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On Sat, November 1, 2014 4:24 pm, Mark LaPierre wrote:> Hey Y'all, > > This morning my wife complained that she had no sound when she was > logged on to my machine. I logged on to her account and brought up > System/Preferences/Sound to see if she had inadvertently selected some > other sound output device. Hey, it happens. There was no sound > hardware detected. I have a USB microphone and an integrated on board > sound card. Neither of these sound devices were available on the > Hardware, Input, or Output tabs. > > I have access to all these devices when I log on as myself. > > This system has been running smoothly since I installed CentOS 6.1 all > those many years ago when that was the current point release. Now that > 6.6 is out I'm seeing issues with video, fixed already, sound, not fixed > already, and my web cam which I have yet to ask for help with. I'm not > saying this sound problem has anything to do with 6.6. > > Does anyone have any idea where I can start looking to figure out what's > going on with my wife's sound hardware detection? >First thing I would check is that other users are not logged in when user in question logs in. (It may be that only one of users at a time can access some of the devices - I'm on the road so have no way to check...) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On 02/11/14 08:24, Mark LaPierre wrote:> Does anyone have any idea where I can start looking to figure out what's > going on with my wife's sound hardware detection? >I've been having the same issue on my system as well (Ubuntu 14.04) and I noticed that pulseaudio was not loading - not sure if this is something to do with an update gone bad or what. I'm currently being forced to start pulseaudio manually and hoping that another update will resolve it: $ killall pulseaudio && pulseaudio -D Cheers, ak.
On 11/01/2014 02:24 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:> This morning my wife complained that she had no sound when she was > logged on to my machine....> I have access to all these devices when I log on as myself.Maybe something is wrong with console management. Add her account to the "audio" group and see if that works around the problem.