Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 11:18:52 PM, you wrote: > Hello All, > I'm lost here and I kindy ask for your assistance. > I just made a 'yum update' to update my mythbackend running Fedora 8. > Previously this used to work fine for me, but this time it left me > with no sound in many applications. Whenever I try to play a file with > mplayer, it says: > ========================================================================== > Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 > AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000) > Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) > ========================================================================== > *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused > [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Connection refused > audio_out: alsa9 and alsa1x modules were removed, use -ao alsa instead. > and if I use '-ao alsa' it starts the playback with no sound at all. > I also noticed my "PulseAudio Volume Control" does not work as well > ("Connection failed. Connection refused"). It used to work fine before > the update... > With the update I changed from kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8 to > kernel-2.6.24.5-85.fc8. I assume it might be important, although I'm > not sure. > I tried searching the Net but I couldn't find a similar issue. > The strange thing is that I just updated another machine the same way > and it has no problems with sound. It just works there as usual! > I don't know how to trace the problem. I didn't find anything in > /var/log/messages or in dmesg. Are there any specific pulseaudio log > files? > Here's some data I could think of: > # aplay -L > front:CARD=ICH6,DEV=0 > Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 > Front speakers > surround40:CARD=ICH6,DEV=0 > Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 > 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers > surround41:CARD=ICH6,DEV=0 > Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 > 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers > surround50:CARD=ICH6,DEV=0 > Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 > 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers > surround51:CARD=ICH6,DEV=0 > Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 > 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers > null > Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) > # aplay -l > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** > card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH6] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH6 - IEC958] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > # uname -a > Linux mythbackend 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Apr 19 12:39:34 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > I appreciate any ideas! > -- > Best regards, > Andrew Now I can answer to myself. It might be an improper way, but yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio fixed the problem for me. Now I have sound in all applications. -- Best regards, Andrew -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list