On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Will Woods wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:52:10 -0400 > From: Will Woods <wwoods@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases > <fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases > <fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: sound on my f11 beta laptop is incredibly unreliable > > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:53 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > at the moment, i'm trying to play a youtube video, but there is no > > sound, either from the built-in speakers or via the headphone jack, > > even though i've got volume cranked up everywhere (on the video > > itself, through pulseaudio, etc.) > > > > and every attempt to adjust volume through the pulse audio volume > > control ends up with an error dialog: > > > > "Connection failed: connection terminated." > > > > connection to what? > > Pulseaudio, probably. This sounds like what happens when the > pulseaudio daemon dies. Check your system logs - there'll be some > pretty straightforward messages from pulseaudio if it's crashing. > > You didn't mention what kernel version you're running, or what > pulseaudio version, or what audio hardware, so all I can really do > is give you wild guesses about what's happening, and why. > > But the most likely explanation is that PA died. The most common > reason for it to die is bugs in the ALSA drivers, usually intel8x0 > or intel-hda. > > If you're still running the original F11Beta kernel - update kernel > and pulseaudio, reboot, and see if things are any better. > > Otherwise, check your system log, then look through the pulseaudio bug > reports and kernel bug reports about audio - esp. the ones on the > F11Blocker list - and if you can't find your problem, file a bug. > Include the pulseaudio log messages and dmesg output that pertains to > ALSA/snd modules. it was an f11 beta system that was up-to-date as of two days ago, so i just did another update, rebooted and sound is back. the lesson here being -- update, update, update. then update. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list