Fedora 8 Soundcard Issue

[keatonvictor]

Hi guys

The other day for some really strange reason my Fedora 8 decided to go AWOL and my soundcard does not work anymore

When I go to sound card configuration It plays the guitar strum fine but when I load Amarok i Get this

xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers

my card can actually play sound but why does amarok think it cant ?

my output fro lspci is here

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04:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device 1003
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at c8c0 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: EMU10K1_Audigy
Kernel modules: snd-emu10k1

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see it is there

[dmbyer]

What do you mean AWOL? Do you launch Amarok from the command line? If not, try that, and post the output from the terminal when launching it.

[VisezTrance]

If it does play oggs or any other free format you might not have support for mp3s.
yum install amarok-extras-nonfree

[keatonvictor]

Hi Visez, I Installed the codecs mentioned above "even though I though I had them"
However IU still get the error message above. I just dont understand it, it was working one day and then suddenly no sound unless u test sound from system-config-soundcard

anywya here is the output from amarok

[keatonvictor@unknown-00-11-11-3e-2e-99 ~]$ amarok
Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
QLayout "unnamed" added to QVBox "unnamed", which already has a layout
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
QObject::connect: Incompatible sender/receiver arguments
StarManager::ratingsColorsChanged() --> ContextBrowser::ratingOrScoreOrLabelsChanged(const QString&)
[keatonvictor@unknown-00-11-11-3e-2e-99 ~]$

[VisezTrance]

When running amarok I get an almost identical output, on my machine, yes including QObject::connect: Incompatible sender/receiver arguments .. however amarok is working fine.

Some things you may want to try:

Change xine with the helix engine(there are additional steps to follow for this scenario, such as installing real player).

If you're really sure that this is not an mp3 codec issue, try to use a different output for amarok, such as oss.

To narrow your problem you could try to temporary rename your amarok configuration files and see if it's working with a clean config.

Assuming you're running kde, does it or any kde app have any sound ? If they don't you may want to change arts to esd, in the kde control center.

As a last resort you could remove pulse audio (yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio; there may be an alternative way without removing any files, but I'm not really sure..)

I hope this helps.

[keatonvictor]

Hi Guys

I am able to play sound in root but not in my nromal account which has sudo ?

help ?

[dmbyer]

Check this thread out:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=174742&highlight=amarok+root+sound

[keatonvictor]

YEY

Its working, yet another satisfied linux user. Well to elaborate I did this one:

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If this doesn't work, then you can also edit /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default-perms. Towards the top, where various things are defined, I add the line

<sound>=/dev/dsp* /dev/snd/*

At the bottom, where permissions are defined, I add

<console> 0666 <sound> 0600 root
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REEBOOTED and Presto!

Thanks guys

[Andrico]

Cool, I had/have this problem too, but this fixed it for the most part. Unfortunately, this still doesn't work for VLC. Has anyone else had this problem, and how would I fix it (also, removed pulse cuz it does nothing for me, but I'll put it back on if it's part of the solution.)