On Sunday 16 March 2008 18:10, max wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 17:52 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Steven Stern wrote: > >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>> Hash: SHA1 > >>> > >>> On 03/14/2008 09:23 PM, David Timms wrote: > >>> | Steven Stern wrote: > >>> |> In any case, system-config-soundcard sees the SB Audigy card, but > >>> |> nothing comes out. When I boot into Windows, it's happy. > >>> | > >>> | = hardware OK,, software problem. > >>> | Maybe you could post the > >>> | /root/scsconfig.log > >>> | > >>> | Are modules getting loaded: lsmod|grep sn > >>> | > >>> | Did you see the s-c-soundcard System tab it has some functions to > >>> | redetect and so-on... > >>> | > >>> |> On the same day, a bunch of packages were installed, including hal. > >>> |> Is there some way I can "clean" the system of what it knows about > >>> |> the current sound card and let it rediscover it from scratch? > >>> | > >>> | Post the yum changes since the last time that sound was working from > >>> | /var/log/yum?.log > >>> | > >>> | That might indicate what has changed. > >>> | > >>> | DaveT. > >>> > >>> I get sound when booting from the F8 Live CD, so *something's* changed. > >>> ~ The scsconfig.log file is attached. > >> > >> cat /proc/asound/cards and see if somehow it's still finding another > >> card. What does alsamixer show for output devices? > > > > Omce again. alsamixer does not work if pulseaudio is active. > > -- > > ======================================================================= > > No matter who you are, some scholar can show you the great idea you had > > was had by someone before you. > > ======================================================================= > > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Check that all the services that should be running are in fact running. > > > Max Personally, and not wishing to knock Lennart's Pulseaudio, which I'm sure quite a lot of folks have found usefull. All the same though, I think I'd temporarily remove the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package, then see if sounds work as expected. Pulseaudio, installed as default on F8 appears to have caused problems for some folks, including myself, and removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio got my sounds back as they were before on previous Fedora versions. 2¢ worth of nothing perhaps. Nigel.