On Sat, 17 May 2008 08:51:30 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I did an upgrade from FC9beta to the release version, and everything > worked fine until I tried to play a clip from CNN. Then I tried youtube, > mlb.com, no sound anywhere, even though sound had been working. Appears > that pulseaudio has decided to take over sound and not let me use it. > > Finally backed up and did and install from cold, sound worked, did the > updates from the fedora and updates repositories, sound worked but no > flash, added flash from the adobe site, clips play as silent movies. > > Looked for the pulseaudio docs, and decided people haven't improved them > since FC6, no hint of what to change, tons of other "no sound" posts on > various places. > > Many other problems, reinstalled FC8, all working again. And I briefly > had ubuntu on the machine and that worked, so the issues seem to be with > the FC9 release, no just Linux on this hardware. > > My feeling is that if I wanted an OS which insisted on doing things the > way the developer wanted, with docs which didn't cover the basics and > had only examples of the most complex cases rather than the things 90% > of users would want, I would be running Windows. > > -- > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot I'm having very similar issues, and I couldn't agree more with what you said. It seems there's a trend to bury and hide from the user configuration details, trying to be smarter than I want it to be (like the other OS). If it works fine otherwise you're screwed. This seems to be the case with networking (NM), and now with X and sound too. I don't even know where to look to diagnose things. But, hey, soon you'll be able to boot off your camera's memory card. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
