no audio, crappy video

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> I haven't had audio since installing Fedora 13.
> It's possible that the problem is that I didn't have the speakers
> plugged in when doing the install.
> How do I make them work?
> For a while there was a speaker icon on my KDE taskbar.
> I tried to use it, but no go.
> It's gone now.  Don't know why.
>
> I installed a flash plugin according
> to the recommendations at fedorafaq.
> Video is really jerky.  About a frame per second.
> How do I make it work?
>> From xorg.conf:
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "radeon"
>         VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
>         BoardName   "Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> When not playing flash, top tells me
> that the load averages are less than 0.2 .

I have it working now.
A friend of mine is a linux guru.
It only took us about five hours.

> I go through stuff like this whenever I do an install.
> By the time I get stuff working,
> I'm too frazzled to remember what I did,
> so it's the same song, same verse next time.

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Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist:   The glass is half full.
Engineer:   The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."