More sound problems

[Jerone Young]

I just did a fresh install today. I get no sound what so ever from
anything. The "firstboot" sound test produces no sound. The gstreamer
test produce no sound. I have everything in the mixer up.


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:49:30 -0700, Andrew Farris
<fedora at andrewfarris.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 22:18 -0400, Louis Garcia wrote:
> > > > After rawhide update 10/19 I can't get sound out of my box. Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > --Louis
> > >
> > > rawhide report 20041019 shows updates to:
> > > gnome-media
> > > gnome-volume-manager
> > > selinux-policy-targeted
> > > udev
> > >
> > > Start with looking at your mixer volumes, devices, perms, selinux
> > > audits.. I have seen any loss of sound from these, so I would think
> > > configuration first.
> > >
> > > btw: there really is nothing to guarantee this is all you updated, just
> > > because thats what changed on rawhide.. so check your update logs for
> > > what changed.
> >
> > Seems gnome-media alsa mixer does not adjusts PCM volume. Went back to -1
> > and adjusted PCM on OSS mixer and sound is back.
> 
> What you're saying is, that using the 'alsa' mixer which was the only
> one shown, you could no longer adjust PCM volume?  Was this only for
> apps which use the OSS interface?
> 
>  - rpm -q --changelog gnome-media | head
> * Mon Oct 18 2004 Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> 2.8.0-2
> 
> - Add patch to not show oss mixers
> 
> If you could no longer adjust volume on OSS PCM, thats bugzilla worthy.
> The mixers should have been one and the same.  The bug really is in
> gstreamer probably, the change in gnome-media was just to 'not show' the
> OSS mixer that gstreamer provided.
> 
> Perhaps the alsa mixer is not handling oss emulation quite the same way
> the oss mixer was?
> 
> 
> 
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