On Saturday 23 August 2008, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >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. > No, I just nuked it all again, re-enabled the ac97 stuff in the bios & rebooted. kmail is beeping at me on incoming mail again. Dunno about anything else as its 6am & no use waking the rest of the house. > >-- >Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine >( www.pembo13.com ) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) You look tired. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
