I did a fresh install of Fedora 8 with the exception of my home directory which is on it's own drive. If I boot into level 3 and logon, sound works. 'aplay -l' lists my sound card - Sound Blaster Live! Value. If I do any of the following, I hear sound: aplay -D hw:0.0 /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav aplay -D dsp0 /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav aplay -D dmixed /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav I have a .asoundrc file that looks like this: #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Copied fro http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=17787 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ pcm.dmixed { type dmix ipc_key 1024 slave { pcm "hw:0,0" period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 8192 #format "S32_LE" #periods 128 rate 44100 } } pcm.dsp0 { type plug slave.pcm "dmixed" } # This following device can fool some applications into using pulseaudio pcm.dsp1 { type plug slave.pcm "pulse" } ctl.mixer0 { type hw card 0 } # Part II directly from Pulseaudio Wiki pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } # Optional, set defaults pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If I next I do: 'startx 2>&1 startx.log', I see the following: ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device ALSA lib conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM dmix process 3678: dbus_shutdown() called but connections were still live. This probably means the application did not drop all its references to bus connections. D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace ** (gnome-session:3666): WARNING **: Failed to start sound. Of course, I get no sounds. 'aplay -l' yields: aplay: device_list:205: no soundcards found... In case something was left over from the previous install in my home directory, I've renamed the following files: .gconf .gconfd .gnome2 .gnome2_private Does anyone have any idea how I can get sound to work under Gnome? Thanks, Frank
