--- Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm still baffled by sound on my Fedora-9 + KDE > ThinkPad T23. > What puzzles me is that sound never works when I > logon, > but starts at some point when I play with the sound > settings. > > Today I muted the Front bar, and then unmuted it, > and sound started working. > > But what I'd like to know is how I can test the > sound system, > to see where the problem arises? > Is it at driver level? > Or is it something to do with pulseaudio? > Or is it something to do with xine? > What I'd really like is a suite of test programs > which will check each stage along the "sound stack". > > Someone mentioned trying something like "cat foo.ogg > > /dev/dsp". > In my case, when sound is working this produces a > white noise. > Is this testing the sound driver > (in my case snd_intel8x0 , I assume) directly? > > I guess what I'm looking for is a Fedora Sound FAQ, > with Q1: I have no sound, what can I do? > The release notes http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Multimedia.html and the following page which has not been updated to reflect the removal of system-config-soundcard http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia/Sound are the closest things that you can use to try to help you out. There is always the alsa webpage: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page There's a discussion at the fedoraforum http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=180117 There's this page also (bit outdated) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePulseaudio Maybe a pulseaudio troubleshooting guide?: Regards, Antonio > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
