
I also have sound problems on a studio 1750.
I'm running KDE and most of the time have no sound after logging in.
But what seems to always work is:


	killall pulseaudio

After that sound works fine!

-Marcel

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 02:36:09PM +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Sunday, November 21, 2010 13:00:23 Craig White wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 10:38 +0100, fred wrote:
> > > i'm using fedora 14 on my dell studio 1749 as a dual boot for school
> > > 
> > > but i need my speakers to work and they don't
> 
> Is the volume turned up in the mixer? What are you trying to play? From which 
> program? If you are trying to play .mp3 files, are you aware that you need to 
> install appropriate codecs yourself (they don't come with Fedora, you can get 
> them from rpmfusion)?
> 
> > > also my cd-drivers does noet work
> 
> What exactly does not work? What are you trying to do? How does it fail?
> 
> > > how can i fux these things?
> 
> You need to describe your problems with more details. Otherwise we cannot even 
> guess what might be wrong. Tell us what are you trying to achieve, what steps 
> you are doing in that regard, what happens, what are you expecting to happen, 
> and are there any error messages or something similar.
> 
> > Sound should be automatic but it is possible that the mixer settings are
> > set too low to actually hear anywhing.
> 
> Yup, this is the most common and typical sound "problem" I know of. You just 
> need to turn up the volume... :-)
>  
> > I'm not on a machine that I can inspect at the moment but I believe the
> > program you want to use is pavolume and check the output levels.
> 
> It was called pavucontrol up to F13, not sure if this changed in F14, though.
> 
> HTH, :-)
> Marko
