Re: A "sound" observation

2010-02-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> First of all I don't know why you use "we". I don't think you >> speak for the "Fedora Project". (OK, I'm very sure you don't speak for >> the Fedora Project) I discount most of what you say. >> > > I am a Fedora KDE packager, so I say "

Re: A "sound" observation

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ed Greshko wrote: > First of all I don't know why you use "we". I don't think you > speak for the "Fedora Project". (OK, I'm very sure you don't speak for > the Fedora Project) I discount most of what you say. I am a Fedora KDE packager, so I say "we" when I speak of the KDE SIG in parti

Re: A "sound" observation

2010-02-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> At this moment pulseaudio seems more of a PITA than anything and kind of >> crazy that a desktop environment would tie itself to it. >> > > We also default to PulseAudio in KDE, this is not just a GNOME thing, > PulseAudio is the default in Fedo

Re: A "sound" observation

2010-02-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Mike Cloaked wrote: > Also might be worth running "alsamixer" or "alsamixer -c0" from the > terminal, and making sure that things like pcm are set at a sensible level - > checking all other levels as well. Occasionally in the past I have been > without sound and that approach has almost always fix

Re: A "sound" observation

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Cloaked
Also might be worth running "alsamixer" or "alsamixer -c0" from the terminal, and making sure that things like pcm are set at a sensible level - checking all other levels as well. Occasionally in the past I have been without sound and that approach has almost always fixed things for me - having s

Re: A "sound" observation

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ed Greshko wrote: > At this moment pulseaudio seems more of a PITA than anything and kind of > crazy that a desktop environment would tie itself to it. We also default to PulseAudio in KDE, this is not just a GNOME thing, PulseAudio is the default in Fedora in general. Your problems seem to be d

Re: A "sound" observation

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Gray
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 17:12 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > At this time I run all of my Fedora systems as VMs in VMware. My host > is RHELv4.8. On this system my sound card is a "ancient" Creative Labs > SB Audigy. When configuring the VM you can select either "ALSA" or > "OSS: /dev/dsp" and direct