On Tuesday 29 January 2008 22:15, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > I've recently installed FC8 and have been trying to get the sound to > work. The system-config-soundcard plays its tune but everything else is > silent. Back in the day, you only had to turn up the volume on alsamixer > but now when I try starting alsamixer I get the message " *** > PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused." > > Does each application have to be configured to work with pulseaudio? > > Why does something as simple as sound on a PC require a Senior Tech to > work in Fedora? > > For starters: > (1) How do I get the mplayer plugin I have up and running in Firefox to > include sound? > (2) How do I get sound from xmms? > > Any roadmaps or even pointers in the right direction would be > appreciated. > > Jerry Personally, I just disabled pulseaudio on F8, when I found it complaining with the PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused, sort of thing. Easily done with a yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio Now your sound should be back working as it was before. Nigel.
