I have a desktop computer, Lucid x86_64, which functions only to stream internet radio, play movies, and serve as my backup to get on the net in case I hopelessly screw up my laptop, which is my real computer.
So today I come home from a trying day at PSU only to discover that PGE has provided me with yet another of their mini-outages (third one this year). The laptop was still running, but the outage was sufficient to kill the desktop and the stereo to which it is attached via Bluetooth. "Bluetooth" in this case means a Logitech adapter that receives the signal from the desktop computer's Bluetooth dongle and sends it out to RCA jacks that plug into the magnetic phono input on the stereo. Usually this is not a problem, I just flick the switch on the stereo and reboot the desktop, and I'm back in business. However, today I could not get the Bluetooth device between the desktop and the stereo to connect. I also could not get my phone to connect to the device, nor could my laptop. OK, power outage fried its little Logitech guts. Maybe. Oh well. I'll fiddle with it some more later when I have more energy. "I'll just connect the cable that I used to use before I bought the Bluetooth device," I thought. The cable has an adapter that plugs into the headphone jack on the back of the computer and terminates in RCA plugs that go into the back of the stereo. So I connect the cable, but no tunes. Nada. After much fiddling with what pass for GUI sound controls in Lucid I decide to connect the cable to my phone. No problem, sound gloriously streaming to the stereo, thanks to TuneIn Radio app on Android and KQAC streaming radio. There are also jacks on the front of the computer, but I can't get any sound out of them either. I am using the audio on the ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, which lspci says is "nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev. a2)." Sound on this computer has always "just worked." It was working fine this morning when I left the house. After rebooting it no longer works. I need ideas for how to diagnose what is wrong. The only thing Lucid gives me are System > Preferences > Sound and Applications > Sound and Video > PulseAudio Volume Control. Neither is much help. Any suggestions? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
