[olug] Getting sound in Fedora 8

[T. J. Brumfield]

One problem is that many bleeding edge distros are changing their
sound system around quite a bit with PulseAudio which is frustrating.

I'm go with a LiveCD designed for troubleshooting and hardware detection.

http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2008.11/

-- T. J.

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Jay Woods <woodsjay at cox.net> wrote:
> This sounds like good advice. :-) The live Fedora 10 PR isn't up to the
> challenge. In the process of getting an MP3 with which to test the sound, the
> distro broke in so many ways as to frustrate the attempt. Simple alarm sounds
> do work. But I had that much working already. Amarok has changed enough that
> it is likely even if it did work (which crashing prevented), it wouldn't
> teach me much.
>
> On Sunday 09 November 2008 02:08:13 pm T. J. Brumfield wrote:
>> The first step I'd recommend is a good recent LiveCD from distro of
>> choice with strong hardware detection.  See if it works in the LiveCD,
>> and then backtrack from the LiveCD how they got audio working for your
>> setup.
>>
>> -- T. J.
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