Greetings, Fedora 10 + sound = how much time do you have? I have enough details on this to make your head spin. I've invested at least six solid hours on this issue now. It began with the notorious "How to: Fix PulseAudio and primary audio issues with Fedora 10" http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206868 --which solved the nasty audio issue. HOWEVER, I've now arrived at a problem I will simply describe as (/etc/inittab): id:5:initdefault: # AUDIO WORKS id:3:initdefault: # AUDIO DOES NOT WORK At runlevel 3 I simply do 'pulseaudio -k; pulseaudio -D' and this is reported in /var/log/messages: Jan 28 12:30:43 mogwai pulseaudio[2073]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Permission denied Jan 28 12:30:43 mogwai pulseaudio[2073]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_1039_7012_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 tsched=0"): initialization failed. Jan 28 12:30:43 mogwai pulseaudio[2073]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Permission denied Jan 28 12:30:43 mogwai pulseaudio[2073]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device_id=0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_1039_7012_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0 tsched=0"): initialization failed. In runlevel 5 I get audio --but I want runlevel 3 for reasons I won't get into here. In runlevel 5 I also get tons of these in the log... Jan 28 12:31:05 mogwai pulseaudio[2073]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! Most likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue to the PulseAudio developers. Jan 28 12:31:05 mogwai pulseaudio[2073]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! Most likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue to the PulseAudio developers.
