Outstanding pre-Fedora9 small issues ?? -SOLVED

[William Case]

Hi;

Perfect timing.  Just read the posting by Rex Dieter Re: F9 kde, howto
bind keys?  Took his suggestion and chose "Front" and my sound came on.

Why "front"?  Who knows?

On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 16:33 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I have a few issues that I have never been able to resolve that I would
> like to solve now before I install the upcoming Fedora9.
> 
> The first one is with sound.  As is, when testing, all beeps, clinks,
> boings and baps of the System Sounds, respond to the Play test.  BUT;
> they do not respond when their appropriate desktop event occurs --
> silence on log in, log out, error etc.
> 
> My soundcard Detection works and confirms that I have a nVida
> Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio with a AD198x Analog default PCM
> device.  It also says I have an ALSA Driver v. 1.0.15; ALSA Lib
> alsa-lib-1.0.15.1.fc8; and ALSA Utils alsa-Utils-1.0.15.1.fc8.
> 
> The sound preferences show Sound Events; Music and Movies; Audio
> Conferencing (Sound playback) set to Autodetect.  The test buttons
> produce a high pitched sound (as they should, I believe).
> 
> Default Mixer Tracks: Device shows HDA NVidia (Alsa mixer); PC Speaker
> is highlighted as the device selected to track and control with the
> keyboard.
> 
> ~]$ alsamixer ==> shows only the Master control.
> 
> I would like to turn these annoying event sounds on; to confirm how they
> work; then I will turn them off on purpose.
> 
> -- 
> Regards Bill
> Fedora 8, Gnome 2.20.3, 
> Emacs 22.1.1, Evolution 2.12.3
> 
-- 
Regards Bill