Testing sound from kcontrol fails (no sound) with no apparent errors.

[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday 24 May 2008, dcw wrote:
> Current setup:
> Motherboard: M2A-VM has a connector for either ac97 or hd sound. I am using
> ac97
> Sound output: line output from computer to tv.
> OS: Fedora 8 with all updates
>
> Tested for sound with the following:
> 1) When using system-config-soundcard, the sound works.
> 2) When using kcontrol to test sound, it fails with no apparent errors.
> 3) When using aplay to test sound, it fails with no apparent errors.
>
> In searching for an answer, one comment was made about pulseaudio causing
> problems so I removed it. Sound test 2 and 3 from above still fail and test
> 1 still works.

This sounds like your ALSA plugin config is not what it should be for 
re-routing sound through PulseAudio.

In case PA is grabs the audio device and does not release it like other sound 
servers do, all other sound output needs to be re-configured to output 
through PA or their usual output device (e.g. ALSA) needs to be re-configured 
to do that.

I suggest you ask on a Fedora list, it is probably a problem in their upgrade 
path from a non-PA system to their current setup.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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