FC9 - sounds of silence

[Bill Davidsen]

I did an upgrade from FC9beta to the release version, and everything 
worked fine until I tried to play a clip from CNN. Then I tried youtube, 
mlb.com, no sound anywhere, even though sound had been working. Appears 
that pulseaudio has decided to take over sound and not let me use it.

Finally backed up and did and install from cold, sound worked, did the 
updates from the fedora and updates repositories, sound worked but no 
flash, added flash from the adobe site, clips play as silent movies.

Looked for the pulseaudio docs, and decided people haven't improved them 
since FC6, no hint of what to change, tons of other "no sound" posts on 
various places.

Many other problems, reinstalled FC8, all working again. And I briefly 
had ubuntu on the machine and that worked, so the issues seem to be with 
the FC9 release, no just Linux on this hardware.

My feeling is that if I wanted an OS which insisted on doing things the 
way the developer wanted, with docs which didn't cover the basics and 
had only examples of the most complex cases rather than the things 90% 
of users would want, I would be running Windows.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot