On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 22:59 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > 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. > Thanks for the quick fix -- sometimes the old ways are best. In trying to fix this I looked at a lot of different pulseaudio documentation (and user complaints). Could someone suggest the most reliable source(s) of information about getting this interesting software to work?
