Sound almost gone with last update, F11

[mjrice]

Today, Tues. Sep. 8 '09, I downloaded and installed the suggested updates but when I rebooted my sound was almost completely muffled.

Anyone else encounter this problem? Suggested fix? I'm using Fedora 11 and have kept up with all the updates.

Michael

[bob]

Yes, it bit me too. Bugzilla filed: 521735 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521735

[mjrice]

Never mind. I checked out the Advanced Sound menu
and discovered the speaker turned down almost all the
way. Wonder why they'd do that in an update. Must have
just slipped by.

Michael

[bob]

Well, I wish it were that easy for me. Yes, the sound was diminished, but I literally had to set it to 100% to get sound, which then came in at 5X normal volume and badly distorted. Just touching the slider reduced it back to 'normal', but when restarting packages such as Streamtuner, the problem immediately reoccurs. Ah well, at least it's 'working' for you.

[Vespa]

Thanks for filing the bug Bob, it got me as well.

[willyb1946]

It apparently has something to do with the latest kernel upgrade to 2.6.30.5-43. I found this thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-4.3.0-749944/ referring to the problem and pointing to this bug entry https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522015.
As soon as I applied the latest kernel upgrade and rebooted, my sound was completely borked. However, when I rebooted back into the old kernel, my sound was back. Something in the way the new kernel was compiled apparently doesn't play nice with pulseaudio.
I hopea fix is forthcoming. In the meantime, I guess I will stick with old kernel unless someone has an easy workaround.

[bob]

Willy, sorry but that's not my problem/solution. The sound's the same in both kernels. Check your sound - it's probably reset at 50%, however no sounds on games until you increase it to near 100%

[cuban_cigar]

You actually have sound working at all in fc11?

[Thaidog]

I have sound but my speakers pop *every time* I have an application that needs sound. Very annoying!

[Vespa]

I did a yum update today again and ran the command "alsamixer -c0". This did work this time, I had to raise all the speaker settings up from 0. Thanks everyone.