Mageia 4 x86_64 : MATE as DE
After installing on my main workstation I have had endless troubles trying to drive a
Bluetooth soundlink speaker. Gave up on bluetooth after eading the errata page regarding
bluez and MATE and went on to try a wired connection to the speaker. No sound, although
pavuctrl showed that the analogue sound card was dealing with it. During my experiments
the pulse directory appeared under ~/.config but owned by root. Must have done something
wrong along the way. Changed ownership to user lcl and rebooted to clear the air. No
cards registered with the sound system although harddrake2 could detect both of them. No
snd_hda_intel drivers anywhere on disk. Could not find a soundcard database. So, how do
I get the system to see the cards again? pulseaudio is definitely running but there is
nothing in ~/.config/pulse but a cookie file.