On Wednesday 19 March 2008 23:55, Jim wrote: > FC8-i386 KDE 2.6.24.3-34.fc8 > My Sound card in a laptop is a VIA Tech, "VIA High Definition Audio > Controller" and all the drivers are loading but it has no sound. > I have heard through the Grapvine that the PCM device VT1708 was broken > in 2.6.24, any truth to that ? > The Soundcard Detection debug files are listed below, scsrun.log and > scsconfig.log. > Who can read and understand these two files. > > > scsrun.log > > > ------- System Config Soundcard Log -------- > Wed Mar 19 17:27:52 EDT 2008 > > aplay: main:546: audio open error: Device or resource busy > *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused > amixer: Mixer attach default error: Connection refused > *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused > amixer: Mixer attach default error: Connection refused > ProbeCards, method = hal > --------- Card 0 -------- > Active 1 > Vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. > Model: VIA High Definition Audio Controller > Driver: snd-hda-intel > > Volume: 75 > Devices: > [[0, ' VT1708 Analog ']] > Test device 0 Hi Jim. As I'm totally obsessed by pulseaudio causing sound problems on F8, I'd suggest removing the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package, then see if the sound works. Just a shot in the dark, and maybe I've got pulseaudio on the brain, but other folks have got their sounds up by removing that package. Nigel.