FC10 - no sound

[Susan Macchia]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Susan Macchia <linux-sxs at sbmgarden.com> wrote:
>> 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>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Is the pusleaudio daaemon running?
>>> pulseaudio -D
<snip>
> 
> yum -y remove NetworkManager

Thanks :)  will try this.  I just didn't know if removing it would bork 
my networking or if all the old stuff still works as it used to.

> 
> 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
>>
>> no -D FWIW.
> 
> Try killing it and restarting it with -D.
> 
>>>
>>> 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?

I get no sound out of my speakers, connected to the SB live card under 
X/kde/gnome.  I'm trying to play music using real play or any other gui 
tool.  They seem to be able to connect to and find the device, but 
nothing comes out of the speakers...
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time/high-priority scheduling was 
requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary 
privileges:
N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant 
us privileges. Dropping SUID again. 

N: main.c: For enabling real-time scheduling please acquire the 
appropriate PolicyKit privileges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or 
increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.
W: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration but not 
allowed bypolicy.
W: core-util.c: setpriority(): Permission denied
gondor:/home/smacchia/susan >/usr/bin/pulseaudio -D
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time/high-priority scheduling was 
requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary privileges:
N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant 
us privileges. Dropping SUID again.
N: main.c: For enabling real-time scheduling please acquire the 
appropriate PolicyKit privileges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or 
increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.
W: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration but not 
allowed bypolicy.
W: core-util.c: setpriority(): Permission denied
E: main.c: Daemon startup failed.


But a "ps" shows that the process is running -D.  Still now sound from 
the speakers when I try and play something, either mp3's on my system, 
through the browser, or a cd in the cd device.

(Note that the cd will generate sound to the headphones if I plug them 
into the cd device.
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