My kernel got upgraded along with everything else in a run of "sudo yum update", and my sound started working again.. yay!! :) Thanks for your tips. On 04/19/2014 06:37 PM, poma wrote: > On 19.04.2014 04:37, Someone wrote: >> Hi poma, >> >> I don't mean to be rude, but is English not your first language? It >> would help me a lot if you could annotate your commands and codes more >> with some explanatory prose. For example, I couldn't really figure out >> what you meant by... > > It has to do with your engagement, not with the language per se, dear > Someone. :) > >> $ paplay >> >> ...at first, since I just ran it and it said "Failed to open audio >> file." Then I realized that it's probably some sort of substitute for >> "aplay", and ran it with the wav file as its argument. >> >> In any case, I have no idea whether you expected it to work as opposed >> to the "aplay" version, but it didn't. > > If you use the PulseAudio sound server, it is one way to test it. > > Enlighten yourself with > man 1 paplay > >> Also, I'm not sure what you meant by linking me to the youtube video, >> but the image I booted from when my audio worked was this one: >> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Live/x86_64/Fedora-Live-LXDE-x86_64-20-1.iso > > That specific live image probably has relatively outdated version of the > kernel. > Does this help us in finding solution? > >> I don't know the first thing about upgrading or changing kernels, or >> installing new versions like rawhide. Would I lose all my installed >> applications and user data? > > I can not answer that question. > >> Is there any way to upgrade without having to make a new live usb >> installer stick, some on-line method of upgrading? > > Are you eager to test the audio device with the latest available rawhide > nodebug kernel, on your own responsibility? > > BTW what is the output of the following command: > uname -a > > > poma > > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
