integrated Sound on Fedora

[Alex Beamish]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Dave Mason <dmason-bqArmZWzea/GcjXNFnLQ/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I have used Linux for years.  But one of the reasons I started moving to
>  Mac OS X on the desktop (6 years ago) was that multimedia was too
>  difficult to make work on Linux, particularly as it wasn't that central
>  that I could dedicate a lot of time to it.  I've been very happy with OSX!
>
>  However, I have my main server at home on Fedora 8, and I am again
>  frustrated by multimedia.  What I want to work seamlessly is pretty
>  minimal:
>
>  MythTV
>  Rhythmbox
>  Flash within Firefox
>  Xine
>  mplayer (would be nice - but very rare)
>
>  Right now, if I use any of them the audio becomes unavailable to the
>  others and I have to kill the first program to get another to work.  I
>  can't believe that this is the current state of the art for Linux.  I've
>  googled, and I'm usually good at finding stuff, but I can't find
>  workable answers to this.  I thought pulseaudio was the answer, but it
>  doesn't get me there.

I share your frustration .. I have an F7 installation that's worked
well for me for some time; I did regular yum updates, but three weeks
ago I did an update, after which sound broke. Now I have no sound at
all, which is incredibly irritating.

Since we're using Kubuntu at work, I'm thinking of installing that
over F7 and starting fresh with Kubuntu instead.

Good luck with your system.

Alex
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