More curious sound probs

Nishtya · 01-23-2005, 10:12 PM

I am obviously not the only one having sound issues with FC3 when upgraded to 2.6.10 kernel.
Have been googling all day and nothing so far fixes it. Tried all manner of turning up/muting various channels/switches. Alsa is saving and restoring the settings fine. But during the KDE load, when the splash screen is going, I will actually hear the sound cut right off (event sound is playing to start with). Something must be loading that is killing the sound - the splash says "restoring session" at that point but I don't know how accurate that is. After the sound has been cut off, I have to run alsaconf all over again.

I have tried not loading kmix, that isn't it. Any log that would capture what is going on at that point of the desktop loading?

Also, an annoyance I don't know if it is related. I have this "autorun" that starts around the same time with a bouncing cd cursor. Annoying and certainly slows down my loading but I can't find what is initiating it. Any suggestions appreciated.

martianpackets · 01-24-2005, 08:41 AM

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Originally posted by Nishtya
I am obviously not the only one having sound issues with FC3 when upgraded to 2.6.10 kernel.
Have been googling all day and nothing so far fixes it. Tried all manner of turning up/muting various channels/switches. Alsa is saving and restoring the settings fine. But during the KDE load, when the splash screen is going, I will actually hear the sound cut right off (event sound is playing to start with). Something must be loading that is killing the sound - the splash says "restoring session" at that point but I don't know how accurate that is. After the sound has been cut off, I have to run alsaconf all over again.

I have tried not loading kmix, that isn't it. Any log that would capture what is going on at that point of the desktop loading?

Also, an annoyance I don't know if it is related. I have this "autorun" that starts around the same time with a bouncing cd cursor. Annoying and certainly slows down my loading but I can't find what is initiating it. Any suggestions appreciated.

Someone posted this link on another thread:

http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/alsa.shtml

It worked for me.

Nishtya · 01-24-2005, 06:16 PM

thanks for the reply, Martian. Had just been there before throwing in the towel and posting here. I don't have either of the "senses" he mentions but did try muting various and sundry channels/switches that are vaguely related (or seem to be).

My main os is debian sid and I have to be honest, it is screaming bloody edge and the upgrades for months now, I haven't had any problems with losing sound. Waiting for it to happen, but I am using 2.6.10 on it and still have all vital things

Would like to lick this prob in FC3, am using alsautils compiled - 1.0.6 since the FC3 package didn't have alsaconf. I may try the 1.0.7. What have I got to lose? But I think the problem lies in something like arts, maybe.

ben_build#2.1.0 · 01-25-2005, 10:27 AM

Step 1: upgrade yum
Step 2: upgrade udev

That solved my problem.

Nishtya · 02-01-2005, 10:21 AM

For what it is worth, it was the automount killing my sound. Noted that there wasn't any problem with sound cutting out in Gnome so knew it was KDE. And KDE had that annoying automount. Once I removed it, the sound did not disappear again.

Still wonder what the conflict was though.