[Leaplist] Fedora 9 impressions so far...

[Jim Hartley]

Just downloaded Fedora 9, haven't had a chance to try it yet. But I know 
with both Fedora 6 and 7 I had sound and video problems at first. The 
solution for me was to hook up to the "Livna" repository and install a 
package called "xine-non-free-codecs" or something similar.

One of the few things I dislike about Fedora is their paranoia about 
anything even faintly tainted by patents or other IP encumbrance. But 
once I found the Livna repository and can install stuff that is not 100% 
simon-pure "FREE" most of the problems have gone away.

Jim Hartley

Gray Frost wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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>
>         <mailto: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>
>          
>          <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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