2009/7/15 <gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> Fedora was expecting to use PulseAudio but you removed that as your > predicate. That puts you with a vocal minority who would rather gripe > about pulse audio than make it work so it will be up to them to tell you > how to solve the sound issues that you 'fixed' by removing pulseaudio > package. > > I didn't remove pulseaudio: > > yum install pulseaudio > > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit > Setting up Install Process > Package pulseaudio-0.9.15-14.fc11.x86_64 already installed and latest version > Nothing to do > > Since I find my volume is too low, I tried pavucontrol as suggested. (No > pamixer available from yum.) > > I receive: > > Connection failed: Connection refused > try this killall pulseaudio rm -rf /tmp/puls* pulseaudio -D (to restart) I remember getting stale pulseaudio file in /tmp back in F9 days and this cured it > I can see the settings for output devices are set to 100% in the interface > but since the connection fails, I can't be sure the figure is correct and > I can't change it. > > One thing is sure: it isn't possible to get as much juice from my preamp > as SMplayer delivers. By default, the sound is rather weak, even with > alsamixer set to max. > > Also, I removed Totem and installed Mplayer because I couldn't watch > features at Radio-Canada with Totem. I'm not sure how this would work with > Totem, but I can't set the system so that it plays the DVD just by > clicking on the icon. > > System - Preferences - File Management - Media finds "no application" to > play video DVDs and there is no way to enter preferred applications. For > audio CDs, XMMS which, I believe is the default for the GNOME > installation, is still installed and it's "no application again", no way > to enter any. > > For playing DVDs, SMPlayer does a good job so, we're not talking about a > major glitch here, mainly if you put an icon for SMPlayer in the panel. > But if people come from the Mac world, they'll really find it terrible if > you can't start a DVD by clicking on it. > > I would be better if this was fixed. Even though the default volume I now > have is not unbearably low, it would also be prefereable if there was a > way to adjust it with pavucontrol. (Maybe this works on 32 bit systems. I > have no idea.) > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
