integrated Sound on Fedora

[Tyler Aviss]

What's the soundcard and kernel version?

I used to use esound to allow mixing of multiple audio sources, but
nowadays it really doesn't seem necessary as ALSA handles things
nicely, even on my crappier soundcards (on ones with hardware-mixing
support, this was never an issue anyhow).

Try turning off esound, pulseaudio, and all that stuff, then set your
apps to use ALSA. I'm not sure about gnome, but the KDE mixer does
have an option to release the card after X seconds of inactivity, so I
usually set this to a low number as well (however, even KDE has within
the last year played nice with not monopolizing the soundcard).

I've been using debian and at least a 2.6.22+ kernel, and KDE as my
window manager, but I'd imagine that it should be about the same for
RedHat.



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.
>
>  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.
>
>  ../Dave
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