FC8, lost sound

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 16 March 2008 18:10, max wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 17:52 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >> Steven Stern wrote:
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> >>> On 03/14/2008 09:23 PM, David Timms wrote:
> >>> | Steven Stern wrote:
> >>> |> In any case, system-config-soundcard sees the SB Audigy card, but
> >>> |> nothing comes out.  When I boot into Windows, it's happy.
> >>> |
> >>> | = hardware OK,, software problem.
> >>> | Maybe you could post the
> >>> | /root/scsconfig.log
> >>> |
> >>> | Are modules getting loaded: lsmod|grep sn
> >>> |
> >>> | Did you see the s-c-soundcard System tab it has some functions to
> >>> | redetect and so-on...
> >>> |
> >>> |> On the same day, a bunch of packages were installed, including hal.
> >>> |> Is there some way I can "clean" the system of what it knows about
> >>> |> the current sound card and let it rediscover it from scratch?
> >>> |
> >>> | Post the yum changes since the last time that sound was working from
> >>> | /var/log/yum?.log
> >>> |
> >>> | That might indicate what has changed.
> >>> |
> >>> | DaveT.
> >>>
> >>> I get sound when booting from the F8 Live CD, so *something's* changed.
> >>> ~ The scsconfig.log file is attached.
> >>
> >> cat /proc/asound/cards and see if somehow it's still finding another
> >> card. What does alsamixer show for output devices?
> >
> > Omce again. alsamixer does not work if pulseaudio is active.
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> Check that all the services that should be running are in fact running.
>
>
> Max

Personally, and not wishing to knock Lennart's Pulseaudio, which I'm sure 
quite a lot of folks have found usefull. All the same though, I think I'd 
temporarily remove the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package, then see if sounds 
work as expected.

Pulseaudio, installed as default on F8 appears to have caused problems for 
some folks, including myself, and removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio got my 
sounds back as they were before on previous Fedora versions.

2¢ worth of nothing perhaps.

Nigel.