FC8, lost sound

[Nigel Henry]

On Monday 17 March 2008 15:59, Patrick O'Callaghan 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:
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> > > >>>
> > > >>> 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.
> > > > --
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> > > >== 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.
>
> poc

Hi Patrick. Nice to hear your sounds are fixed. Something else you could do if 
you have any audio apps that use SDL, is to add the following line to 
~/.bashrc, which will remove the hack that SDL programs need to use 
pulseaudio.

unset SDL_AUDIODRIVER

All the best.

Nigel.