Recent issues with Pulseaudio/Fedora 12?

[cswiii]

All,

In the past, oh, 48 hours or so, my sound has died completely. I can't tell yet if it has come from an update, but I know it was working in the past couple days.

Pulseaudio does not seem to be detecting my hardware sound device. It shows up fine in alsamixer, but pavucontrol is only giving me dummy devices and has no options to configure hardware ("No cards available for configuration").

This is obviously not true:

[corey@lajiao pulse]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [CK804          ]: NFORCE - NVidia CK804
                      NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at irq 22
[corey@lajiao pulse]$ /sbin/lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0           28838  0 
snd_ac97_codec        115712  1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus                1322  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq                52773  0 
snd_seq_device          6151  1 snd_seq
snd_pcm                78247  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              19840  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    62376  6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6271  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7389  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

Removal and reinstall of pulseaudio (as well as obvious reboots as an attempt to straighten things out) has failed to resolve anything. I have read this article (http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenr...nd-workarounds) but that hasn't fixed anything either. Then again, my audio was working just fine and suddenly went out the window.

I am not ruling out a hardware failure, but I would almost think that there would be other signs that the hardware was busted, at the system level...

Ideas?

[ozjd]

If you don't have them install paman and padevicechooser. They provide more control tha just the volume control.

[BugRocks1]

Check the state of pulseaudio with:

pacmd ls

---------- Post added at 10:54 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 10:33 PM CDT ----------

lsmod didn't show anything?

Because if there is no snd modules there I don't see how alsa would function.

[cswiii]

Originally Posted by BugRocks1

Check the state of pulseaudio with:

pacmd ls

---------- Post added at 10:54 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 10:33 PM CDT ----------

lsmod didn't show anything?

Because if there is no snd modules there I don't see how alsa would function.

Oops, initially that was supposd to show the count of sound modules, must've left out that line. I have updated the text above to show what's really there -- it looks like the snd modules are all loaded.

As for pacmd and padevchooser they still show and/or only allow selection of dummy device, there's nothing for the sound card.

[PabloTwo]

If it's a pulseaudio configuration problem, you could try,

mv .pulse .pulse.bak

Then log out and back in (or reboot) and see if anything has changed. If that doesn't help, then just rename .pulse-bak to .pulse.

[cswiii]

Resolved -- it was an issue with udev. Somewhere along the lines I had gotten some F13 packages mixed up into my install, and I had gone and 'downgraded' some of the libudev* stuff back to F12 -- but udev itself was still F13. reinstalling F12 udev fixed everything.

Thanks all.