On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 22 August 2008, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >>On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >>> Greetings; >>> >>> Because many of you said to use it, it worked just fine, I re-installed it >>> all and I haven't had any noise from anything but kmail and maybe kino >>> since then, kino audio seemingly depending on the phase of the moon, day >>> of thew week and possibly multiplied by the age of the raccoon I last >>> killed, now many years ago. >>> >>> Anyway, I'm like the other guy who said all he wants to do is play some >>> fscking sound. Looking up the various pieces in yumex to see what there >>> might be for configuration helpers, I try several pieces but they return 0 >>> output, and all seem to be killable with a ctl-c. >>> >>> Until I get to padmin, now there is a real Super Informative Name. >>> >>> padmin displays, on the server tab, a whole menu of alsa stuff, every one >>> of which points into the nvidia chipsets builtin ac97 audio on this >>> motgher board, and absolutely zero reference is made to the the SBO400 >>> Audigy2 card that I actually use as the main sound system here, with the >>> nvidia thingy being relegated for skype etc usage. >>> >>> Now, many moons ago, I spent considerable time on this list arriving at >>> an /etc/modprobe.conf stanza that made it all work the way I wanted it to >>> work. It looks like this: >>> ------------------------- >>> alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 >>> options snd-card-0 index=0 >>> options snd-emu10k1 index=0 >>> alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0 >>> options snd-card-1 index=1 >>> options snd-intel8x0 index=1 >>> alias snd-card-2 snd-mpu401 >>> options snd-card-2 index=2 >>> options snd-mpu401 index=2 >>> -------------------------- >>> >>> And if I can get enough of it killed and uninstalled, it will still work >>> as I have done exactly that once before. >>> >>> The pulseaudio wiki/web page has zero info on how to do this unless my >>> speed reading is skipping over it somehow, but I've now been over it 5 or >>> 6 times without anything raising its hand asking to go wiwi. >>> >>> If it would help, I can snapshot and post the various screens padmin >>> shows. Whoever wrote that gui seems to have left out the ability to >>> clipboard the contents. 500 lashes with a wet noodle are in order for that >>> omission. >>> >>> Also, I get the impression this is an administration program, in which >>> case I ought to be able to edit some of this, multiple choices based on >>> the available hardware would be nice, but as near as I can tell, nothing >>> is editable, so whyinhell call it an admin program when it can't? Good >>> question that.. >>> >>> So how do I go about making pulseaudio work like I want it to work? >>> >>> URL's for answers is fine, but the pulseaudio web page I was pointed at >>> before is effectively all advertising, and about as useful as those >>> appendages on the belly of a boar hog. >> >>I got no advice.. just questions. Is there anything special about your >>install? > > Some stuff is locally built, like I track the latest linus kernel 2.6.27-rc4, > amanda snapshots, kino-1.3.2, and all gmerlin dependencies, needed to make > openmovieeditor build and work, which when I do, I find it cannot import what > I already have, and it has no idea there is a real live camera out there on > the end of a 1394 connector. None of the audio is anything but rpms AFAIK. > >>I have done two F9 installs so far, both with embedded sound >>cards however, and have had zero audio issues. >> >>Also, what does `lspci` say about your sound card? > > Small correction, cards, although the nvidia is on the mobo. > > 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio > Controler (MCP) (rev a1) > > And: > > 01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value > >>Arthur Pemberton >> > Thanks Arther. >> Have you tried popping in a Fedora 9 live cd, see if you have audio with that? If you do then that means the problem is specific to your software setup. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
