Hi Nigel, 2007/12/18, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 22:44, Niels Weber wrote: > > I have troubles with sound after upgrading from F7 to F8 (using the > > DVD, running 64 Bit). On a second machine, where I did a new install, > > sound runs fine, so did sound on my main machine while running F7. > > > > I tried to match the pulseaudio packages of the upgraded machine to > > the freshly installed one but that resulted in almost no sound working > > anymore. So I removed all packages containing pulseaudio in their > > name. That resulted in a situation where sound works in some > > applications and not in others. > > > > That looks to me as if sound doesn't work when the systems SDL library is > > used. > > > > Does anybody have a solution for this? > > I think you need to add a line to ~/.bashrc, to remove the hack that SDL > programs needed to use pulseaudio. See below. > > unset SDL_AUDIODRIVER > > Not my fix. Someone else posted it. Thanks anyway, that unsetting worked. So, now I have my sound back everywhere and guess I can live with it until I get around to really get pulseaudio installed. Thanks, Niels
