FC8, lost sound
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 23:47:19 UTC 2008
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 19:10 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 March 2008 18:10, max wrote:
> > > Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 17:52 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > > >> Steven Stern wrote:
> > > >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > >>> Hash: SHA1
> > > >>>
> > > >>> On 03/14/2008 09:23 PM, David Timms wrote:
> > > >>> | Steven Stern wrote:
> > > >>> |> In any case, system-config-soundcard sees the SB Audigy card, but
> > > >>> |> nothing comes out. When I boot into Windows, it's happy.
> > > >>> |
> > > >>> | = hardware OK,, software problem.
> > > >>> | Maybe you could post the
> > > >>> | /root/scsconfig.log
> > > >>> |
> > > >>> | Are modules getting loaded: lsmod|grep sn
> > > >>> |
> > > >>> | Did you see the s-c-soundcard System tab it has some functions to
> > > >>> | redetect and so-on...
> > > >>> |
> > > >>> |> On the same day, a bunch of packages were installed, including hal.
> > > >>> |> Is there some way I can "clean" the system of what it knows about
> > > >>> |> the current sound card and let it rediscover it from scratch?
> > > >>> |
> > > >>> | Post the yum changes since the last time that sound was working from
> > > >>> | /var/log/yum?.log
> > > >>> |
> > > >>> | That might indicate what has changed.
> > > >>> |
> > > >>> | DaveT.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I get sound when booting from the F8 Live CD, so *something's* changed.
> > > >>> ~ The scsconfig.log file is attached.
> > > >>
> > > >> cat /proc/asound/cards and see if somehow it's still finding another
> > > >> card. What does alsamixer show for output devices?
> > > >
> > > > Omce again. alsamixer does not work if pulseaudio is active.
> > > > --
> > > > =======================================================================
> > > > No matter who you are, some scholar can show you the great idea you had
> > > > was had by someone before you.
> > > > =======================================================================
> > > > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
> > >
> > > Check that all the services that should be running are in fact running.
> > >
> > >
> > > Max
> >
> > Personally, and not wishing to knock Lennart's Pulseaudio, which I'm sure
> > quite a lot of folks have found usefull. All the same though, I think I'd
> > temporarily remove the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package, then see if sounds
> > work as expected.
> >
> > Pulseaudio, installed as default on F8 appears to have caused problems for
> > some folks, including myself, and removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio got my
> > sounds back as they were before on previous Fedora versions.
>
> Amen to that. I've been banging my head againt the wall for several
> weeks because sound worked in stuff like mplayer, vlc, flash videos
> etc., but not in Amarok. Removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio magically
> fixed everything.
Just a note to the effect that I now have sound working with
pulseaudio. The trick was to RTFM :-). Specifically, the instructions
in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq (in the section
entitled Fedora 7 -> Fedora 8) where it says:
yum groupinstall sound-and-video gnome-desktop (if you are using Gnome)
yum groupinstall sound-and-video kde-desktop (if you are using KDE)
yum install libflashsupport paman padevchooser
After exiting and restarting the session, this worked.
poc
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