[Leaplist] Fedora 9 impressions so far...

[Gray Frost]

Good info.   Thanks Hank.

 Let me get a little more specific.  I got sound out of anything NOT XINE
engine based with FC8.  I got sound out of mplayer and the like with FC8.
I did this and that and that and this and reconfigured more asound.conf
files and read through more posts than I can count.  NADA!!! never never
never did I get sound with xine or xine based programs.

When  you pull up Pulseaudio manager with Ubuntu 8.04  it shows pulseaudio
server as running; however, in the audio preference I selected all ALSA
devices and had no problems.  Also in alsa mixer I had to select the PCM and
optical output switch. All of this took about 5 mins in Ubuntu.

Anyways I had no luck with FC8 and loaded up Ubuntu.   I'll give it a try
with FC9 and the sky's will part and singing from the heavens will fill my
essence with sweet sound ;)  /crosses fingers.

It is all here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/no-sound-in-fedora-8-pulseaudio-unable-to-connect-reposted-631767/

Gray

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Hank Lambert <hank at hanklambert.com> wrote:

> 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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