Fedora sound nightmare (Pulseaudio)

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Dimi Paun wrote:
> Folks,
>
> As some of you might remember, I have experienced hell
> with Fedora sound ever since, well, FC3 or maybe  earlier.
> Every time I complained, I was told to file bug reports,
> which I did, and nothing much was done about it. 
>
> I am an old time Linux user & hacker, been using Linux
> since 1996. It's now 2008, we're about to release F9,
> and sound is still a big mess. This is not about filing
> bug reports, it's a systemic problem that must be addressed.
>
>   
Lennart is working hard on getting "linux sound system" into the 21 
century..
> The long and short of it is that sound works sometimes, and
> then stops working. It just does. Maybe from an update, but
> it just stops working. Then you start fscking around with all 
> sort of settings, and _maybe_ you get it working again. 
> Maybe not.
>
> But every time there is any change or you reboot the system, 
> it is a Russian roulette if the sound will still work. It is
> believably f-r-u-s-t-r-a-t-i-n-g.
>
> For example today: sound stopped working 2 days ago through
> my regular speakers (the USB headphones always work!). This
> morning there was another big pile of updates, so I decided
> to reboot the system, maybe that would fix it. 2h(!) later,
> I have no sound, and instead of working, I'm writing a long
> message to fedora-devel :)
>
>   
Go Selinux
Go Policykit  ( yet another step closer to Vista/M$ way..  )

> Cause: pulseaudio refuses to make use of the built-in (Intel)
> sound card. And I can't figure out how to force it! 
> BTW: I use Gnome, I have ESD checked (that's an obvious label!)
> so pulseaudio is enabled.
>
>   
Maybe because something is denying it access to the built-in soundcard
> It will just use the USB headphones. If I use Rhythmbox, it uses
> the default desktop output, and that goes to my USB headphones.
>
> Audacious on the other hand, behaves like this:
>   * if output is set to ALSA:default, it will go to my headphones
>   * if output is set to PulseAudio, it will stutter like crazy
>   * if output is set to ALSA:hw:1,0 it will go to the system speakers
>
> So built-in sound works just fine, just PulseAudio refuses to
> use it.
>
>   
I would say it was not allowed to use it, it wants to but cant...
> Can we stop breaking working systems with every other set of updates?!?
> How can one depend on F8 for regular day-to-day work if w continue in
> this fashion?
>
>   

Best regards.
                    Johann B.
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