What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 07 May 2009, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> wrote:
>>> On Thursday 07 May 2009, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>>>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>> While not an answer, how about something that will let kde sounds work
>>>>> with fedora? Obviously and apparently pulse isn't it, probably for lack
>>>>> of configuration tools.
>>>>
>>>>That's either
>>>>1.  configuration issue
>>>>2.  audio driver support/bug
>>>>3.  pulseaudio bug
>>>>
>>>>none of which is solvable by additional software.
>>>>
>>>>If you've given up on trying to use PA, try
>>>>yum remove pulseaudio
>>>>
>>>>If it still doesn't work, then it's not pa's fault.
>>>>
>>>>-- Rex
>>>
>>> Thanks Rex.  I have been somewhat determined to make it work since I don't
>>> see near as much evidence of the gored ox with f10, and in truth, nearly
>>> everything does work, except the sound effects for kde, they sound like
>>> they are coming from a set of headphones, in the next room, not this one.
>>>
>>> With 3 audio systems installed, the usual on a high priced asus mainboard,
>>> and an audigy2(not the stripped 'live' model) and apparently it has found
>>> an audio system on the HD-2400 Pro video card too, I suppose kde's output
>>> is miss- directed somehow.  But, I removed the module build for all the
>>> others except for the audigy2 thinking that would force everything to use
>>> the audigy2.  No effect other than a constant nag from kde asking if I
>>> want it to forget the other stuff, and I click yes & check the don't nag
>>> me again box.  But it does, everytime I startx.  I even have jack
>>> installed and have played the 10,000 monkeys thing configuring it, nothing
>>> helps.  Shrug.  Everything else works.
>>
>>I have a similar setup. However I also have (and want) 5.1 sound... so
>>I just removed PulseAudio.
>>
> I just tried that too Arther, and yum looked like it only removed that which
> it needed to remove, unlike the last time (F8 then) when it wanted to remove
> most of X/KDE.
>
> So we'll see, but haven't tested much yet.
>
> Thanks for the nudge to try it again.


Cool. I know for sure it works for me. So I hope it works as well for you.


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