Fedora 11: Complete guide to fix PulseAudio and video/audio VLC Media Player issues

OK. I eventually found and solved the problem with Avahi; it appears in the services; and it was deactivated. I activated and could then enter in the device chooser.
However, whatever I did with the various volume tabs the result is always the same: an aweful noise on the external microfone - and I checked with three different models- and the voice is extremely lousy and very low compared to the background noise.
Any idea what one could do to solve that problem?

[vr00m]

I tried your guide but it didn't help. The audio stutter stopped only after I installed my graphics card driver. (Fedora 11)

[hellblazer]

awesome! my sound works properly again!

[sikku]

I did exactly as mentioned in this guide. But my sound in still not working in my Fedora 15.
My sound was working perfectly fine in Fedora 14. My system crashed because of a power failure and had to do fsck at the startup. After this my system came up, but there was not sound. Later I upgraded to Fedora 15, still the same problem persists.
The great thing abt this is there are no sound cards detected in the sound preferences, but I can hear sound if I run any Streaming videos from the web browser. I dont understand how this happens.
I am not able to play any video/audio files stored in my PC.

I tried running from a Fedora 13 Live CD. It is detecting the sound card. Both internal and external.
But when I run Fedora 15 which is intalled on the hard disk, it is failing to detect either of the sound cards.

lspci command displays all the sound card informations from Fedora 15.

Can you please help me in this regard?

Thanks a lot.

[sikku]

This is the output of lspci

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
06:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster

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Check the screen shot of the sound settings.
lspci detetcs but not the sound settings.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/attach...7&d=1307071722

[vivianbosco]

I installed Fedora 15 and im not able to get any sound. please help me..

i tried 'lspci'
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:11.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 81)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200]
02:01.0 Modem: Smart Link Ltd. SmartLink SmartPCI562 56K Modem (rev 04)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 80)

I also tried alsamixer -c0
and all the volume limits are 100.
What should i do to get my sound ?

[maximiliengolum]

(Sorry for my english >< )

It's work, without reinstall pulsaudio, of course, I've tried to remove it, but yum would removed gnome-shell, so I've just applied the modifications in default.pa and default.conf, I've rebooted, put audio device and output to default in VLC ( prédéfinie en français :s ), relaunched VLC, and after 30s of ugly noise, music became normal \o/ and from the moment i've did this, I don't have any problem

[robertdaleweir]

Originally Posted by maximiliengolum

(Sorry for my english >< )

It's work, without reinstall pulsaudio, of course, I've tried to remove it, but yum would removed gnome-shell, so I've just applied the modifications in default.pa and default.conf, I've rebooted, put audio device and output to default in VLC ( prédéfinie en français :s ), relaunched VLC, and after 30s of ugly noise, music became normal \o/ and from the moment i've did this, I don't have any problem

Hi maximiliengolum
I have had garbled sound in VLC when first starting a DVD for a long time. I will try what you say and hopefully it will fix the issue. I will advise here as to how I make out. I have had a problem with VLC since F14 and still do in F17. Thanks...

[robertdaleweir]

Originally Posted by maximiliengolum

(Sorry for my english >< )

It's work, without reinstall pulsaudio, of course, I've tried to remove it, but yum would removed gnome-shell, so I've just applied the modifications in default.pa and default.conf, I've rebooted, put audio device and output to default in VLC ( prédéfinie en français :s ), relaunched VLC, and after 30s of ugly noise, music became normal \o/ and from the moment i've did this, I don't have any problem

Hi maximiliengolum
I found two 'default.ca' one in '/etc/pulse/' and one under '/var/lib/gdm/.pulse/' . Which one do you 'make modifications to'? What exact modifications do you make? Does VLC work OK, on subsequent restarts? Thanks...