[SLL] Fedora 8 - getting sound to work?

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 20:51:09 -0800
"Steve McCarthy" <sjm at mccrew.com> wrote:

> Anyone else on the list using Fedora 8 who has figured out how to get
> sound to work?
> 
> I am upgrading after several years of relative happiness with FC4,
> where the sound worked reasonably well.  After the upgrade, the sound
> does not work at all on the same hardware.
> 
> I have spent some time Googling, and have tried some of the more
> obvious things like checking the permissions of
> the /dev/(mixer|audio|dsp) and /dev/snd/*.  There have been some
> problems reported with the new pulseaudio, and I have removed all
> packages that reference pulseaudio, to no avail.


Upgrades are somewhat dicey especially when bringing in a new sound
system.

I would suggest a 'yum groupinstall "Sound and Video"' to pick up the
missing pieces, and to get pulse back on the system.  Also make sure
that ConsoleKit is installed and running, and that PolicyKit is
installed as well.

ConsoleKit determines who has the local console and doles out ACLs on
the devices according to PolicyKit.  If you're not getting the ACLs you
likely won't be able to access the device and that will cause
pulseaudio to have some headache.

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