Sound on Fedora-8: what a mess!

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

I attained Sound Heaven by removing pulseaudio and all its works.

poc

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 14:29 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I was listening to a CD (Yehudi Menuhin) on one F-8 laptop,
> where it worked fine (using amarok),
> and moved to another, apparently identical, F-8 laptop,
> and got no sound at all.
> I tried "killall -9 pulseaudio" and it worked perfectly.
> 
> There seem to be a vast number of sound applications
> competing for use.
> What exactly is the relation between pulseaudio and amarok?
> I see on my KDE system I also have KDE=>Multimedia=>CD Player
> but I have no idea what application this refers to.
> Clicking on it does not produce any sound, in any case.
> 
> KDE=>System=>Soundcard Detection seems to me completely useless.
> It either tells me that sound is working, which I already know,
> or else that it is not working.
> I cannot see what function this program could possibly serve,
> unless one has more than one soundcard,
> which surely is extremely rare.
> 
> RealPlayer, mplayer, helix, amarok, KsCD, KMix -
> is there any end to this ...
> 
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