On Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:22:56 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Is there a knack to getting my plasma desktop to operate happily with my new > Bluetooth speakers? I can get a connection using the Bluetooth control > panel, and the sound device appears in the Audio control panel, but testing > either speaker produces no sound. > > The Gentoo wiki was helpful in getting everything I need (well, I thought I > had), but still I seem to be missing one link in the chain. > > (I still have the old M-Audio speakers with their line-in, but so far I've > lost two motherboard sound chips and two USB dongles while using them, so I > wanted to try something else.)
The root cause was simple: i was not in the audio group. I always used to be, but sometime when installing a new system (yet again) I must have dropped it when creating my user. Now, where's that humble pie? -- Regards, Peter.