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

[Shannon McMackin]

On 07/14/2009 04:18 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 12:15 -0700, Kam Leo 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
>> 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?
>
> Thanks for detailing your process, but I can't help but notice its for a
> VM instead of an actual installation like I am running.  Does anyone
> have tips for a non VM installation ?
>
> Why did you have to download the oss driver from a non Fedora location ?
> What is Fedora expecting us to use and what do we need to do to get it
> working ?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
I had no sound until I found the tip to run alsamixer -c0 and make sure 
the appropriate levels were maxed, then PA was fine.