On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 19:10 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Sunday 16 March 2008 18:10, max wrote: > > > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 17:52 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > >> Steven Stern wrote: > > > >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > >>> Hash: SHA1 > > > >>> > > > >>> On 03/14/2008 09:23 PM, David Timms wrote: > > > >>> | Steven Stern wrote: > > > >>> |> In any case, system-config-soundcard sees the SB Audigy card, but > > > >>> |> nothing comes out. When I boot into Windows, it's happy. > > > >>> | > > > >>> | = hardware OK,, software problem. > > > >>> | Maybe you could post the > > > >>> | /root/scsconfig.log > > > >>> | > > > >>> | Are modules getting loaded: lsmod|grep sn > > > >>> | > > > >>> | Did you see the s-c-soundcard System tab it has some functions to > > > >>> | redetect and so-on... > > > >>> | > > > >>> |> On the same day, a bunch of packages were installed, including hal. > > > >>> |> Is there some way I can "clean" the system of what it knows about > > > >>> |> the current sound card and let it rediscover it from scratch? > > > >>> | > > > >>> | Post the yum changes since the last time that sound was working from > > > >>> | /var/log/yum?.log > > > >>> | > > > >>> | That might indicate what has changed. > > > >>> | > > > >>> | DaveT. > > > >>> > > > >>> I get sound when booting from the F8 Live CD, so *something's* changed. > > > >>> ~ The scsconfig.log file is attached. > > > >> > > > >> cat /proc/asound/cards and see if somehow it's still finding another > > > >> card. What does alsamixer show for output devices? > > > > > > > > Omce again. alsamixer does not work if pulseaudio is active. > > > > -- > > > > ======================================================================= > > > > No matter who you are, some scholar can show you the great idea you had > > > > was had by someone before you. > > > > ======================================================================= > > > > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > Check that all the services that should be running are in fact running. > > > > > > > > > Max > > > > Personally, and not wishing to knock Lennart's Pulseaudio, which I'm sure > > quite a lot of folks have found usefull. All the same though, I think I'd > > temporarily remove the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package, then see if sounds > > work as expected. > > > > Pulseaudio, installed as default on F8 appears to have caused problems for > > some folks, including myself, and removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio got my > > sounds back as they were before on previous Fedora versions. > > Amen to that. I've been banging my head againt the wall for several > weeks because sound worked in stuff like mplayer, vlc, flash videos > etc., but not in Amarok. Removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio magically > fixed everything. Just a note to the effect that I now have sound working with pulseaudio. The trick was to RTFM :-). Specifically, the instructions in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq (in the section entitled Fedora 7 -> Fedora 8) where it says: yum groupinstall sound-and-video gnome-desktop (if you are using Gnome) yum groupinstall sound-and-video kde-desktop (if you are using KDE) yum install libflashsupport paman padevchooser After exiting and restarting the session, this worked. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
