Pulseaudio Works - see wiki upgrade notes ;)

[Les Mikesell]

Karl Larsen wrote:

>>>    He said to get these things:
>>>
>>> yum groupinstall sound-and-video gnome-desktop
>>>> yum install libflashsupport paman padevchooser
>>>>
>>>> and you should get the full pulseaudio setup.
>>
>> That process is mentioned on the fedora project wiki:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq#head-56b13936246769f517ac488a0098d193c7fc3600 
>>
>> , specifically to do with yum upgrades from F7 to F8. However, I did 
>> the same following my F7->F8 dvd upgrade, and it has fixed a few audio 
>> issues I was seeing.
>>
>> DaveT.
>>
>    I loaded F8 from the dvd and audio was not working.


Did you upgrade from an F7 install or start from scratch?

 > Advise from the
> list said to deleat some rpm's and it did fix the problem. Then updates 
> built a partial pulseaudio again and I had audio problems. Removed the 
> updates and it was good again.
> 
>    Then got curious why I want to have pulseaudio and did a google and 
> joined their list and still don't know what it does :-)

http://www.linux.com/feature/119926
It solves the problem of having too many audio frameworks and tools by 
adding more - the network-session proxy being the part that might have 
been a problem in the other sets.

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    Les Mikesell
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