F10 on Asus N10J netbook

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Tue Nov 18 22:11:12 UTC 2008


David A. De Graaf wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:11:04PM -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:27:03PM -0500, David A. De Graaf wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Pulseaudio is a travesty and abomination.
>>>       
>> That sounds a bit too overgeneralized; 
>>     
>
> Michal Jaegermann:
>
> Thank you for your calming, rational and helpful reply.
> My previous rant against pulseaudio was misdirected. 
>
> Pulseaudio works perfectly well - there is no need to remove the
> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package - but the "security" restrictions
> surrounding it are onerous and inappropriate for the default setup (in my
> opinion).  Overcoming these restrictions is obscure and unnecessesarily
> difficult and is likely to discourage Fedora users who are unwilling
> to discover the secret handshake.  This default configuration is
> inappropriate.  It can and should be made more user-friendly.
>
> My minimal expectations are simple:
>
> 1)  aplay should be able to make a sound before anyone has logged in.
>
> 2)  sound should be available to all users both at a console
> and in X - xfce, gnome, kde or any other graphical environment.
> This includes allowing crontab entries to make sounds, regardless of
> who's logged in. 
> Availability of sound should most certainly not depend on X.
>
> This implies that the pulseaudio daemon must be started at bootup,
> preferably as a regular system service, and that the sound device files
> should be accessible by anyone.
>
> Here are the changes needed for sound to work for me.
>
> First, make sure the soundcard works.  In most cases, the proper
> driver module will be installed automatically.  But for my Asus N10JA2
> netbook with Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family)
> High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) it was necessary to add this
> line to /etc/modprobe.conf:
>
>     options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig
>
>
> 1)  Edit /etc/group, adding every user to group pulse-access, or at
> least every user that will be permitted to enjoy the sound system.
> Be sure to include root.
>     pulse-access:x:495:root,dad,srd
>
> 2)  To relax the restrictions that block users from using the sound
> system, create a new file, /etc/security/console.perms.d/80-sound.perms
>
>     # define the sound device class
>     <sound>=/dev/snd/*
>     # permissions
>     <console>  0666 <sound>    0666
>
> This allows the sound devices to be accessible to all users.
>
> 3)  Start a system-wide pulseaudio daemon by adding lines to
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local.  The daemon starts before anyone has logged in,
> and runs forever.
>
>     /usr/bin/pulseaudio -D --system --log-level=3 --log-target=syslog
>     /usr/bin/aplay /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
>
> 4)  Prevent xfce from starting another redundant pulseaudio process.
> Edit /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc to comment out these lines:
>
>     ##  if test x"`which pulseaudio 2>/dev/null`" != x""; then
>     ##         pulseaudio -D &
>     ##  fi
>
>
> If anyone can explain why this is not an appropriate default setup for
> Fedora, I would love to hear it.
>
>
>   
FC10/KDE
I tried your setting and sound works okay on eeePC 702 , but the Mic 
Capture keep shutting off
I set sound settings in gnome-volume-control, including enabling tab 
Recording  Capture Mic but it keeps disabling  it so I can't get the mic 
to work.
In Playback Microphone is enabled




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