Fun and games with sound

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sat Mar 12 18:57:54 UTC 2011


On Saturday 12 March 2011 18:41:06 Gabriel Ramirez wrote:
> On 03/12/2011 12:24 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I don't think pulseaudio was properly installed, for some reason.  After
> > trying a few commands that I found on blogs I got a message saying that
> > no pulseaudio daemon was running, and I couldn't find any way to get it.
> > Rebooting didn't do it, so I assume that something was missing stopping
> > it from initialising at bootup.  I never say any phonon-anything
> > backends offered - just xine, gstreamer and vlc.
> 
> well, sometimes  pulseaudio starts but crashes because consumes too much
> cpu, but changing the daemon.conf is a workaroud for that
> 
> sorry xine, gstreamer and vlc are fine, I was referring to the rpm
> packages names
> 
> > I've removed PA altogether, and at least have sound from a single speaker
> > now. I could really use some help to re-install PA properly this time. 
> > If I can get so far I can try your suggestions.
> 
> only reinstall the pulseaudio rpms and yum reinstall
> /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-kde , I never added or removed of pulseaudio
> related stuff from the Fedora 14cinstall via DVD
> 
/usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-kde -  now that's a name I don't recall seeing 
before.  I'll give it a try and let you know what happens.

Anne
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