FC10 - no sound

[Susan Macchia]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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.

<snip>

>>> 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

<snip>

> 
> Is the pusleaudio daaemon running?
> pulseaudio -D

Hmm - something was seriously borked because when I logged out to *try* 
and log in as root (under X), I couldn't even get a virtual terminal and 
had to reboot.

And *of course* the main network didn't come up and I had to manually 
bring it up (network manager?  gonna have to figure out how to remove 
that monstrosity).

When everything came up I was able to run alsamixer and I get this 
pretty screen showing the volume...  but no sound <of course>.

BTW "ps-ef | grep pulseaudio" shows;
sue       5283     1  0 17:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
sue       5541  5063  0 17:39 pts/5    00:00:00 grep pulseaudio

no -D FWIW.
> 
> 
> Are you seeing this problem inside of X, or runlevel 3 ?  If its in X,
> which window mgr are you using?

I get no sound whether I run gnome or kde...<sigh>  This is very 
frustrating - I found one other reference to this problem, but it's for 
x86_64 and all the conversation seems centered around that.. no real 
solution.  The whole thing is a mystery that I really don't have time to 
deal with.  I'd rather work on things that haven't been solved yet!  Not 
stuff that SHOULD work! yes, I'm just a *little* po'ed.


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