Re: FC8, lost sound

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On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:33 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Monday 17 March 2008 15:59, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 19:10 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > 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:
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> > > > >>> 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.
> > > > > --
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> > > > >== 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.
> >
> > Amen to that. I've been banging my head againt the wall for several
> > weeks because sound worked in stuff like mplayer, vlc, flash videos
> > etc., but not in Amarok. Removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio magically
> > fixed everything.
> >
> > poc
> 
> Hi Patrick. Nice to hear your sounds are fixed. Something else you could do if 
> you have any audio apps that use SDL, is to add the following line to 
> ~/.bashrc, which will remove the hack that SDL programs need to use 
> pulseaudio.
> 
> unset SDL_AUDIODRIVER

I have no idea whether any of my stuff uses SDL and am too lazy to
check, but I guess it doesn't do any harm to unset the variable
anyway :-)

poc


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