integrated Sound on Fedora

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 03:45:43PM -0400, Dave Mason 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.

The usual offender when only one thing can use sound is KDE. It seems to
insist on loading artsd which is a useless piece of @#$#@$. :)  esd
under gnome (which I don't think it uses anymore) caused almost as much
trouble.

Configure kde to not load that and suddenly sharing the sound card just
seems to work.  I think kde4 finally stopped using it by default and it's
about time.

> What 'rpm -q -a|grep audio' says is:
> 	jack-audio-connection-kit-0.103.0-5.fc8
> 	pulseaudio-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8
> 	alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.15-2.fc8
> 	portaudio-19-5.fc8
> 	gnome-audio-2.0.0-4
> 	audiofile-devel-0.2.6-7.fc8
> 	pulseaudio-libs-devel-0.9.8-5.fc8
> 	audiofile-0.2.6-7.fc8
> 	pulseaudio-0.9.8-5.fc8
> 	pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.8-5.fc8
> 	libcdaudio-0.99.12p2-8.fc8
> 	pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.8-5.fc8
> 	pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.8-5.fc8
> 	pulseaudio-core-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8
> 	pulseaudio-utils-0.9.8-5.fc8
> 	pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.8-5.fc8
> 	pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.8-5.fc8
> 
> Thanks in advance.

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Len Sorensen
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