Soundcard works but no sound... how do I troubleshoot ?

[Linuxguy123]

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 11:08 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi;

> > > > > 
> > > > I had to remove alsa-pulseaudio rpm.
> > > 
> > > I think you meant alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.
> > > 
> > you are probably correct.
> 
> I removed PulseAudio and alsa-plugins-pulseaudio a couple of days ago
> and Audio CD in RtythmBox etc. still doesn't work.
> 
> I think the problem is hidden in one of the other updates.  Ubuntu
> people (googled) seem to be having the same problem.  I would guess that
> the bug was introduced somewhere upstream of Fedora. 

There isn't just one bug, there are several.  The whole linux sound
setup is currently a mess in my opinion.

My sound worked yesterday through my headphone jack, from various
sources.  I even had sound for system events from time to time.  I have
no idea why it decided to start working.

This morning I removed the pulseaudio components to see if that would
allow me to have system sound.  That messed up the entire sound system.
I now only have sound from Amarok.  So its back to tweaking various
settings and rebooting frequently to see if I can get sound working
again.

Do I need to mention that sound was fine in F10 and that all of this is
extremely frustrating ?

I can't even file a bug report on this because the symptoms are changing
with every reboot.