FC10 - no sound

[C M Reinehr]

Hi Susan!

On Sun 11 January 2009 11:13, Susan Macchia 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!

As Lonni already has pointed out my experience with Debian likely will not be 
the same as yours with FC10. As you can see from my sig I'm still running the 
stable version of Debian (& waiting, & waiting for the testing version to 
become released as stable). Also, I don't recall that you ever mentioned 
which desktop environment you were using. I'm using KDE v3.5.5 (I know that 
Lonni doesn't like KDE either ;-) which uses the aRts sound server. (I 
understand that that is going away in KDE v4.x, thank goodness.)

So, originally, it was KDE talking to aRts talking to ALSA and installing the 
Pulseaudio software made it KDE talking to aRts talking to Pulseaudio talking 
to ALSA. (Using the Gnome desktop environment or KDE4 should make it simpler 
by eliminating aRts.) After removing the Pulseaudio packages 
& /etc/asound.conf I just reverted back to the original system.

Cheers!

cmr
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