FC10 - no sound

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:10 PM, C M Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:
> 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.

That's definitely not relevant for Fedora.  That file exists by
default on Fedora.

Susan, one other thing that you can try is to disable pusleaudio by
moving or renaming /etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf


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