Phonon and non-existant audio devices

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 18 September 2008 17:06, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Nigel Henry
>
> <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> > I'm not sure when I first starting getting the phonon messages, but I
> > think it was after all the updates. Anyway seeing your post today, I've
> > looked at "sound-system settings" again. Now I see 5 entries. The greyed
> > out one that I'd already moved to the top, then the same entry again, but
> > not greyed out, and the other 3 now say "default (default audio device)",
> > "hw:0.0 (ALC662 Analog)", and "hw:0.1 (ALC662 Digital)".
>
> What is the path to this "sound-system settings" tool? I don't seem to
> find it in my menu.
>
> --
> Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin
> ( www.pembo13.com )

Hi Arthur. You should have stayed with FC7, while sipping that drop of 
moonshine, and I genuinly hope that you havn't overwritten it with Fedora 9, 
as it's always nice to be able to bootup a Fedora version that works, and use 
the latest version in a bit of an experimental way.

Anyway, now back to the system settings.

Click on the "F" in the panel, and you'll get the new kickoff menu (if you 
want, as I do, the old style classic menu, right click on the big "F", and 
select "Switch to Classic Menu). On the kickoff one you have 3 items when you 
open it, webbrowser, system settings, and file manager. Go for system 
settings, then sound, which will open a window named "Sound-System Settings".

If you're using the classic menu, the same window will be found at "Settings", 
then "System Settings", then "Sound".

Don't ask me about anything you see here, as I'm probably as much in the dark 
as you.

All I can say, is that I'm trying various audio stuff on F9. KsCD plays audio 
cd's ok. Sonic Visualiser plays .ogg, and .mp3's ok, Soundtracker plays .xm 
files, and ZynAddSubFX, which uses jackd, works ok with my usb midi keyboard.

Soundcard on this machine is onboard hda intel, using ALC662 codec.

Posting this message from Kmail on Fedora Core 2, which is still, although 
unsupported, running like a swiss watch.

Nigel.