Hello,
I have never experienced that one account would steal a sound device from other accounts, if that account is not being used at the moment.
Interesting.
First I would start by installing pavucontrol and I would try looking if the cards are visible there and if they can be chosen for output.
Then, I would also consider switching to PipeWire, which is possible on Fedora 33 by installing the pipewire package and the pipewire-pulseaudio package.
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 7:30 AM Robin Laing <MeSat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I use multiple accounts and recently a major headache has occurred with
pulseaudio. My problem started last weekend.
From what I have found so far is that one account takes over a media
output device.
On my present system, I use the onboard sound for all audio but the HDMI
says that it has audio. Both computer monitors do have an audio output
jack. Sound card is connected to 5.1 speaker system.
On average, I have two or three accounts open for work and private stuff
which has worked for many years with no problems. Recently, the issue
has arose that the one account I use for general day to day stuff has
taken over the sound card for only it's usage.
The second account that is for work has tried to use the HDMI output but
cannot even see the sound card as an option. If I restart pulseaudio,
then no devices are found until I at least lock the account and log back in.
If I open a third account which I have to use for online related work, I
have no sound device to use until I do a reboot.
I have looked at trouble shooting this but I am lost. Most online
troubleshooting help is geared to a single account being used.
To add to the issue, I use mplayer as my main player and in the second
account, it refused to work if I had tried to restart pulseaudio. It
works with no sound if the HDMI/Display port is the only device as there
are no speakers It is not an mplayer configuration as I have cloned the
configuration from the account that works.
No changes to the /etc/pulse/* files since last November which would
have been the upgrade to F33.
Where do I start?
Robin
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