On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 11:18:48AM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > In a new install of Fedora 33, XFCE there is no audio and when I try to use > pavucontrol to troubleshoot the display starts but my cursor pointer is > lost. I can do the same command from this computer via ssh and get the > following result: > > [bobg@Workstation-2 ~]$ pavucontrol > > Connection to pulseaudio failed. Automatic respawn in 5s. > > What can I try next? What is the output of this command (running as your regular user)? pactl info It should tell you some information about how PulseAudio is run. If it isn't running, it will say something like "Connection failure: Connection refused". Then you should see if the pulseaudio socket is enabled: (also run as your regular user) systemctl --user status pulseaudio.socket It should be Active(running). -- Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
