No audio on F11 and pulseaudio questions

[Bill Davidsen]

Chris wrote:
> Installed F11 yesterday. Generally very impressed but I've got no
> sound. I'm using an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card and there's a bug
> report which matches the symptoms I'm experiencing here:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499435
> 
> In the comments, the reporter mentions that sound works when he stops
> pulseaudio and runs through alsa. I'm struggling to do the same since
> pulseaudio always restarts itself. I've tried "pulseaudio -k" and
> "kill <pulse's PID>" but it always respawns. I had a look in
> /etc/event.d to see if it's started in there and is set to respawn but
> there's nothing there.
> 
> Any ideas on how I can kill pulse? I'd also ask if anyone's got ideas
> about how to fix the lack of sound, but it looks like a bug that
> others are also experiencing.
> 
Try installing the advanced mixer, which is called (IIRC) gst-mixer. Turn on 
unlikely things, don't expect it to be easy. And if you want PA to stop being a 
pain in the bit, "yum erase PulseAudio" or similar.

Audio seems really sick, my laptop audacity shows my microphone as being a mono 
left channel, fc10 booted on same hardware from another partition records in 
stereo. Someone in chat told me that "advanced error detection" in fc11 is 
disabling the right channel, and I have a hardware problem. My personal error 
detection tells me that's crap. ;-)

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