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FIXED Re: Bluetooth speakers
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?

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Regards,
Peter.