Hello list, I thought it was time to start a fresh thread, so here it is.
I still have no working sound. I keep thinking I've fixed the problem, only to be proved wrong at the next reboot. The hardware is a USB dongle with a Unitek Y-247A chipset and I'm using an ordinary 3.5mm wired connection. The problem seems to be in my user account, because I can create a new user, then adjust control panel values to suit, logging out and in after each change. The sound keeps operating as it should - until I reboot, and then it's dead. By 'dead' I mean (a) it's silent, and (b) when I click the control panel button to test a speaker, the icon changes colour to show it's working, but it just hangs and never comes back. This reminds me of another problem, in which Konsole windows are not always restored after a login. This has still not been fixed; two bugs refer: 1. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=819459 2. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445862 Something else also changes at the first reboot after creating a new user account: a dialogue box opens requesting permission to mount a partition - but that partition is one of several marked 'noauto' in fstab. (Screen shot attached.) What can possibly live under /home/prh and cause all this disruption? I might suspect I'd been hacked, but I've rebuilt a new system several times, and I've lost count of the times I've thrown away my user account and started again. -- Regards, Peter.
