Re: PulseAudio...
So Ill ask, is there either a way to get this pos working, or is
there
any way to just turn it off so it wont bother me?
Like many others I had troubles with pulseaudio so I understand.
I skipped from F9 to F11 so I'm not sure about the F10 specifics, but as
of F9 I came up with the following choices:
1) Uninstall completely:
yum remove pulseaudio
2) Keep it installed, but disable it in gnome, hoping to fix it later:
killall pulse
solves the problem but only for the current gnome session. For a more
permanent solution, pulseaudio is started when the X-server is started, by
/usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon. To tell gnome-settings-daemon not to
start pulseaudio do
applications -> system tools -> gconf-editor -> apps ->
gnome_settings_daemon -> plugins -> sound
and uncheck "active".
3) Try to configure it properly.
I have an onboard soundcard, a pci soundcard and a bttv framegrabber (with
some sound device on it) and pulseaudio was getting confused. I had my
speakers plugged into the pci sound card, obviously, but by default
pulseaudio would use the onboard soundcard.
cat /proc/asound/cards # to see which dound cards you have
pactl stat # see which sink it's using
pactl list # see which sinks it knows about.
If the sink currently in use is not the card you have your speakers
plugged in, tell it to use the sink/card you want by setting default-sink
to the appropriate number (as given by pactl list) in /etc/pulse/
client.conf.
I did this and got pulseaudio to work in F9. Oh, and there was also a
sound application in F9 (which I no longer see in F11) where you could
choose which sound system to use (like pulse, alsa, oss, whatever). I
think I messed with that too, but I think the thing that got it to work
was to tell puslseaudio to use the appropriate sink for the sound card I
had the speakers plugged into.
Beyond this I don't know.