GlitchFreeAudio, features for F10

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Thu, 9/18/08, Dennis J. <dennisml at conversis.de> wrote:

> From: Dennis J. <dennisml at conversis.de>
> Subject: Re: GlitchFreeAudio, features for F10
> To: olivares14031 at yahoo.com, "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 4:58 AM
> Have you tested sound without PulseAudio going directly
> through alsa? PA 
> does seem to be really picky with every update when it
> comes to audio 
> hardware while alsa always keeps working fine for me.
> 
> Regards,
>    Dennis
> 

I have tried oss, but does not work. 

I leave it as default, I get

==========================================================================      
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3                           
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)           
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)          
==========================================================================      
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'            
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: Permission denied
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concatreturned error: Permission denied
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: Permission denied
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: Permission denied
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Permission denied
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no sound
Video: no video

I try oss and I get:

==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Permission denied
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no sound
Video: no video



I have checked the wiki on PulseAudio to no avail.  I had enjoyed sound for a good while, but now after two or three rawhide reports ago, it went down :(

Thanks,

Antonio