FC10 - no sound

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Susan Macchia <linux-sxs at sbmgarden.com> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Susan Macchia <linux-sxs at sbmgarden.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I just switched from FC6 to FC10.  I've gotten mostly everything to
>>> work.  But not sound.  It has this new pulseaudio thing that I'm having
>>> trouble figuring out.  Sound worked fine under FC6.  I've googled and
>>> googled and can't seem to find anything to help me figure out the mess.
>>
>> PulesAudio is another one of those things that Fedroa decided to add
>> that is a complete POS.  Its the solution for a problem that doesn't
>> exist.
>
> No kidding - I totally agree.  ALSA was absolutely fine.  Sheesh. I think
> Ubuntu has made the same grievous mistake!

Ubuntu makes numerous mistakes.  I've long since given up trying to
prioritize them.


>> Have you tried running alsamixer to see if you can adjust the volume?
>
> When I try to run alsamixer as myself or root I get:
> ALSA lib pulse.c:266:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect:
> Connection refused
>
> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection refused
>
>
> Aint that great?

Is the pusleaudio daaemon running?
pulseaudio -D


Are you seeing this problem inside of X, or runlevel 3 ?  If its in X,
which window mgr are you using?



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