On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 09:40 -0500, Mark C. Allman wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 21:09 +1100, Danny Yee wrote: > > I must have wasted three or four hours reading various web pages about > > Fedora 8 sound problems and trying various fixes -- I keep finding > > "solutions" that work for some applications but not others, or work > > for a while and then stop working for no obvious reason. > > > > * I can't use totem or rhythmbox as they crash, killing firefox and > > starting gnome-screensaver (and eventually killing by X session) > > [I'm not using gnome or kde] > > * I've managed to get kaffeine to work, but it never keeps on working > > > > Things I've tried: > > * making sure avahi-daemon and ConsoleKit are running (this was my first > > "aha, that's solved it", but now restarting these does nothing) > > * running kaffeine as root (I eventually settled on that as a "good > > enough" solution, but now that doesn't work) > > * changing files like /etc/security/console.perms.d/60-sound.perms > > following various arcane instructions on web pages > > (this never seemed to do anything) > > * restarting pulseaudio by hand (again following instructions) > > /usr/bin/pulseaudio -k > > rm /tmp/pulse-$USER/pid > > /usr/bin/pulseaudio -D > > (this never seemed to do anything useful either) > > * removing and/or reinstalling packages such as alsa-plugins-pulseaudio > > (either no effect or toggles the YouTube versus CD functionality) > > * extensive Google searches and perusal of the suggestions they find > > > > Current situation: sound works in e.g. YouTube but I can't play audio CDs > > -- kaffeine crashes, and totem and rhythmbox crash even worse (taking > > firefox with them) > > > > If I actually used sound in any serious way I'd have gone back > > to Fedora 7 or switched to another distribution weeks ago. As it > > is it's annoying the hell out of me because I'm reading a book on > > psychoacoustics and I want to listen to the accompanying audio CD. > > > > Yes, I should file something in bugzilla, but I don't even know which > > package needs fixing. > > > > Danny. > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > http://dannyreviews.com/ - over nine hundred book reviews > > http://danny.oz.au/ - civil liberties, travel tales, blog > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > Same here. I was listening to the Shuttle countdown yesterday and it > suddenly quit playing. No error messages, just no sound! The NASA TV > page launched the RealAudio plugin. It worked for awhile, then nothing. > It's not that it quit--it's that there's no feedback to try to resolve > the problem! > > Alsa keeps telling me that there are no sound cards detected. No other > error messages. I see cards under /proc/asound, and it all looks like > there's something there: > [mcallman@prez BusinessMsg]$ ls /proc/asound > card0 cards devices hwdep Intel modules oss pcm seq timers version > [mcallman@prez BusinessMsg]$ cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel > HDA Intel at 0xdfffc000 irq 21 I have essentially the same behavior except the card is numbered 1 not 0. I get: 0 [CS4236B ]: CS4236B - CS4236B CS4236B at 0x534, irq 5, dma 1&3to do. I have not a clue what to do. Any suggestions out there? -- ======================================================================= One person's error is another person's data. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
