Phil wrote:
So my sound does not work... I am using FC6.
It used to work fine.
Is there a way to reinstall all the sound related stuff? How do I do that?
Any suggestions?
I had a similar problem up until I read your post and double-checked my
settings :D
After a yum update the sounds suddenly stopped working, and I hadn't
figured out how to fix it. I have several machines with FC5 and FC6
here, and some of them have also had this problem. But then, on some
machines the sound is gone for a week/a month, and then suddenly it is
back again. Go figure.
Here's were it gets weird: Soundcard Detection works perfectly, detects
the correct hardware, and even plays the test sounds that I can hear
coming out of the speakers. But not a single other application produces
sound. They are all muted for some reason, with no reported errors when
I run them in a console.
Turns out there are 2 PCM devices listed in the sound-detection
application, and somehow the wrong one was selected.
Duh.
Check that, maybe that will help.
Other things to check: Is the kernel-module for your soundcard loaded,
try unloading and reloading it. (lsmod, rmmod, modprobe, all that jazz)
Check dmesg, any errors with regards to ALSA, ESD etc.
Update your system? Maybe that will fix things?
A related problem I ran into a while back on different hardware:
When you plug a head-phone into your soundcard, something
detects/triggers that, and it is meant to automagically redirect the
sound to the appropriate port/mute the normal channels. That doesn't
always work out of the box on some hardware, and you sometimes get
unexpected results.
Try using/not using head-phones and see what happens.
If all else fails, can you post what type of soundcard is in your machine?
Cheers,
Marcel
---
Then the Swedish Bikini Team arrived and things improved.
