No Sound in Fedora Core 8

[Mark C. Allman]

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 06:20 -0600, John Thompson wrote:
> On 2008-02-20, sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Nguy?n V?n Tho?i wrote:
> >> I've upgraded my system from FC4 to FC8 and got no sound.
> >> In FC4, the sound system worked just perfectly. However, in FC8, it 
> >> doesn't work anymore.
> >> The funny thing is that when I launch the "Soundcard Detection" program, 
> >> it works (?!)
> >> Has anyone faced this problem before?
> >> Please help :)
> 
> > I actually gave up after 6 weeks messing around. f8 doesn't seem to like 
> > sound.
> 
> Have you checked your mixer settings?
> 
> -- 
> 
> John (john at os2.dhs.org)
> 
This is probably the permissions problem with your sound devices,
e.g., /dev/dsp, /dev/snd/*.  You run "Soundcard Detection" as root, so
it works.  You need to modify the permissions set in one of the files
in /etc/udev/rules.d.

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