Sound not working on 3.12.x and 3.13.x kernels for Fedora 20

[dwoody1]

On 04/29/2014 02:09 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 04/29/2014 02:49 PM, dwoody1 wrote:
>> I installed F20 shortly after it's release. Everything worked as
>> expected.
>> All kernels released since then have resulted in the sound not working.
>>
>> The kernel that works is 3.11.10-301.fc20.i686+PAE. Sound does not
>> work for the 3.12.x and 3.13.x kernels.
>>
>> I have searched for a solution for this and found several
>> recommendations but none worked for me.
>>
>> I have compared a listing of the modules (lsmod) from the working
>> kernel and non-working kennel and both lists have the same sound
>> modules loaded (there is a size difference in some of the modules, but
>> I expected that).
>>
>> I have compared the output from amixer for both working and
>> non-working kernels and they are exactly the same.
>>
>> The sound related packages that are installed are:
>>
>> pulseaudio-libs-glib2-4.0-13.gitf81e3.fc20.i686
>> alsa-tools-firmware-1.0.27-3.fc20.i686
>> alsa-utils-1.0.27.2-4.fc20.i686
>> alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.16.rc2.fc20.i686
>> alsa-lib-1.0.27.2-2.fc20.i686
>> pulseaudio-libs-4.0-13.gitf81e3.fc20.i686
>> alsa-firmware-1.0.27-2.fc20.noarch
>>
>> I am not very knowledgeable about sound. I am sure I need to check
>> other configuration settings but I do not know which files are relevant.
>>   
>>
>>
> you don't show the standard pulseaudio package??
> pulseaudio-4.0-13.gitf81e3.fc20.x86_64
>
> do you use the pulseaudio Volume control in Sound & Audio?
>
I have Mythtv installed as well. When I first installed Mythtv many 
years ago they recommended not using pulseaudio just alsa.

David