[Leaplist] Fedora 9 impressions so far...

[Hank Lambert]

I thought Ubuntu 8.04 was still using alsa? Alsa has a known issue with 
the sound mixer settings (volume control under gnome) in some Debian 
Etch and Ubuntu installs (maybe others...I don't know). The External 
amplifier switch is selected by default, which disables sound going to 
the computer speakers. It is not, however, displayed in the Switches 
tab, so there is no way to know this. In the volume control, select Edit 
-> Preferences, select External Amplifier, and close the preferences 
box. External amplifier is now displayed under switches, and is checked 
(in my case anyway). Uncheck the box next to External Amplifier and you 
have audio. This is a 30 second fix that took me a week with Google to 
find the answer to.

--Hank


Gray Frost wrote:
> Any problems with PulseAudio?  I could not get it right with F8.  I 
> was connected with sound automatically  with Ubuntu 8.04. Even though 
> I love Fedora I have grown attached to Ubuntu (Everything is working LOL)
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Craig Conner <fuznacious at gmail.com 
> <mailto:fuznacious at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > I want to know what you all think of F9.
>     > Is it great?
>
>     My first impression is:  Yes, it's great. :)
>
>     There are a couple of things I immediately noticed working better
>     than 8.
>
>     First, yum seems to be *much* faster.  Using exactly the same PC and
>     connection as I have for years, the new yum is a big improvement in
>     speed.
>
>     Next, one of my laptops seems (as reported by glxinfo) to have direct
>     rendering working automagically.  This is a first for this laptop as
>     it "features" the ATI RADEON(R) XPRESS 200M IGP video graphics, a card
>     that has never played well with ...well, anything before.
>
>     (Specs for that laptop:
>     http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00678224&lc=en&cc=us%E2%8C%A9=en&product=3184602&dlc=en
>     <http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00678224&lc=en&cc=us%E2%8C%A9=en&product=3184602&dlc=en>
>     and apologies for hp's monstrous URL.)
>
>     Fedora 9 release notes:
>     http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/
>
>     --Fuzzy
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