My kernel got upgraded along with everything else in a run of "sudo yum
update", and my sound started working again.. yay!! :)

Thanks for your tips.

On 04/19/2014 06:37 PM, poma wrote:
> On 19.04.2014 04:37, Someone wrote:
>> Hi poma,
>>
>> I don't mean to be rude, but is English not your first language? It
>> would help me a lot if you could annotate your commands and codes more
>> with some explanatory prose. For example, I couldn't really figure out
>> what you meant by...
> 
> It has to do with your engagement, not with the language per se, dear
> Someone. :)
> 
>>     $ paplay
>>
>> ...at first, since I just ran it and it said "Failed to open audio
>> file." Then I realized that it's probably some sort of substitute for
>> "aplay", and ran it with the wav file as its argument.
>>
>> In any case, I have no idea whether you expected it to work as opposed
>> to the "aplay" version, but it didn't.
> 
> If you use the PulseAudio sound server, it is one way to test it.
> 
> Enlighten yourself with
> man 1 paplay
> 
>> Also, I'm not sure what you meant by linking me to the youtube video,
>> but the image I booted from when my audio worked was this one:
>> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Live/x86_64/Fedora-Live-LXDE-x86_64-20-1.iso
> 
> That specific live image probably has relatively outdated version of the
> kernel.
> Does this help us in finding solution?
> 
>> I don't know the first thing about upgrading or changing kernels, or
>> installing new versions like rawhide. Would I lose all my installed
>> applications and user data?
> 
> I can not answer that question.
> 
>> Is there any way to upgrade without having to make a new live usb
>> installer stick, some on-line method of upgrading?
> 
> Are you eager to test the audio device with the latest available rawhide
> nodebug kernel, on your own responsibility?
> 
> BTW what is the output of the following command:
> uname -a
> 
> 
> poma
> 
> 
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