FC10 - no sound

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Susan Macchia <linux-sxs at sbmgarden.com> wrote:
> C M Reinehr wrote:
>>
>> On Fri 09 January 2009 19:03, Susan Macchia wrote:
>>>
>>> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> Susan, one other thing that you can try is to disable pusleaudio by
>>>> moving or renaming /etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf
>>>
>>> Thanks - I'll give that a try.  I'm going offline for a while and hope
>>> to try some of this over the weekend.  I'll report back my successes (or
>>> failures).  Hopefully the former!
>>
>> Susan,
>>
>> My experiment ended up no better than yours. After creating the
>> /etc/asound.conf file per the howto, the pulseaudio daemon would start, kde
>> ceased complaining about being unable to start the sound server (aRts) but
>> no sound. I'm afraid that after checking all the usual suspects I
>> surrendered, removed all the pulseaudio packages and went back to ALSA/aRts.
>>
>> cmr
>
> So I assume that removing all the pulseaudio, & leaving the alsa that was
> installed, did work for you (you got sound)?  Do I need to do anything
> special to configure it?  TIA!

Debian is NOT the same as Fedora.  Debian doesn't default to use
pulseaudio, so removing it is harmless.  Fedora defaults to
pulseaudio, and removing it altogether will likely cause severe
breakage elsewhere.  If you want to disable pulseaudio in Fedora, just
rename /etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf



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