stan wrote: >> But what I'd like to know is how I can test the sound system, >> to see where the problem arises? > One thing that gives a quick picture of your sound system is to run the > script at this location > http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-file/tip/alsa-info.sh > The script scans your machine and extracts out things relevant for > diagnosis and puts them on a website. It gives you a link to the > information that you can post here or use yourself. > > Another thing is to use aplay (man aplay). > > In your case aplay -v -D plughw:0,0 some.wav should play something. Thanks very much for your advice, which I shall follow. Actually, for the first time ever sound worked on my T23 laptop when I logged in this morning. But it had been getting easier to start sound, or else I was getting cleverer (unlikely). It's a bit like NetworkManager, which suddenly started working - maybe when I installed Fedora-9 - after months if not years of endless fiddling to get it going. Since then, NM has worked faultlessly. Hopefully, sound will be the same ... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list