From the top... how do I get sound working in F11 ?

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 19:20:27 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Kam Leo<kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Linuxguy123<linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been using F11 since it came out and it works great. But I haven't
>> had any sound since I did the upgrade.  Sound worked great in F10. Its
>> getting old not having sound.  How do I get it working ?
>>
>
> [snip]
>
>> I've removed pulseaudio and mplayer and removed the .mplayer folder and
>> then reinstalled mplayer.
>>
>> How should I proceed from here ?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Sound also failed for me when I upgraded my virtual machine from F10.
> It also failed on a new virtual machine install of F11.  Status for
> sound is as follows:
>
> VM upgrade of F10 to F11:
>
>    Removed PA.
>    Unable to remove Alsa because of dependency hell.  (Most
> everything is tied to it.)
>    Download and installed Open Sound System driver rpm:
> http://www.4front-tech.com/download.cgi
>
>    Got sound and a mixer but no master volume control for Gnome taskbar.
>
> VM F11 install:
>
>      No sound device. PA Manager/Device Chooser and find device or

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> defaults to null.
>      Removed PA
>      Enabled OSS sound support in /etc/modprobe.d/dist-oss.conf
>
>      After restart: Sound card detected. Alsa mixer works.  No master
> volume control for Gnome.
>
>
> I also have virtual machine instances of openSUSE 11.1 and Ubuntu 9.04
> installed on the same machine. Sound works in both.  As far as I am
> aware both distros use Pulse Audio. So, where or how did Fedora
> developers get off track and derail sound?
>




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