FC10 - no sound

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Susan Macchia <linux-sxs at sbmgarden.com> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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).

yum -y remove NetworkManager

NM is yet another thing that is useless, broken, and pointless.

>
> 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
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> no -D FWIW.

Try killing it and restarting it with -D.

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>> 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.

You get no sound _where_ ?  How are you trying to get sound?