FC10 - no sound

[C M Reinehr]

Susan,

On Fri 09 January 2009 16:46, Susan Macchia 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>
>
> >>> 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.

I'm new to Pulseaudio, too, but I had some free time this afternoon and, after 
seeing your post, decided to investigate. Did you come across this Pulseaudio 
How-To in your efforts: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=12497

I'm running Debian Etch with KDE 3.5.5 and my first discovery was a file 
called /etc/asound.conf which must be installed by hand to enable ALSA & 
Pulseaudio to play together.

I'm going to keep playing for a while longer and will report back.

HTH

cmr
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