Volume control buttons not working in Fedora 11

[zorgoth]

After running my computer for a while, my volume control always messes up. I wonder if it is some app. Mute, raise, lower volume all fail, and so does the little volume icon in my notification area. When the computer boots up things are fine. I can do some more testing later to try and pinpoint the source but I need to wait a few hours for a download to finish. I can still use Advanced Volume Control and all the options there work.

[Milena]

Hi
Are you using pulseaudio or alsa only ?

Originally Posted by zorgoth

I wonder if it is some app.

wine can do that for example. it need exclusive access to the soundcard via alsa, that will block pulseaudio from doing anything (system sounds, volume controls have no effect, etc.). It should work again when wine is closed. some other applications have the same behaviour.

edit: same problem occurs on my f11 installation when using self build wine without the pulseaudio patch and savage2, a native linux game. both need exclusive access to the soundcard without pulse and volume settings have no effect for me until i close these apps.

[DennyCrane]

I have experienced the same problems and many more (relating to audio) since upgrading to F11. Doesn't seem to have anything to do with Wine in my case.

[zorgoth]

Seems to have nothing to do with any app as far as I can tell. It just seems that it happens.

[zicronsoft]

i too am having an issue with this. i uninstalled totem because the volume on that couldn't change. i do have alsa completely uninstalled but on my ubuntu computer it never gave me issues about it

[AdamW]

When the problem's happening, can you run 'ps aux | grep pulse' at a console and report the result?

You can't 'completely uninstall' ALSA, the important components are part of the kernel, and you would not get any kind of sound without it.