PulseAudio became the standard audio system in Fedora 8, but it is a buggy piece of crap that crashes from time to time for no apparent reason.
PulseAudio does not get along well with KDE
pulseaudio-core-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8 pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.8-5.fc8 pulseaudio-utils-0.9.8-5.fc8 pulseaudio-0.9.8-5.fc8 pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.8-5.fc8 pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.8-5.fc8 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.15-3.fc8.1 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8 akode-pulseaudio-2.0.2-4.fc8 kde-settings-pulseaudio-3.5-38.fc8 pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.8-5.fc8
esdcompat: esdcompat is a compatiblity script that takes the same arguments as the ESD sound daemon esd(1), but uses them to start a the PulseAudio sound server with the appropriate parameters
PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
aplay -L amixer cat /proc/asound/version cat /etc/asound.conf lspci -v |grep -iC 10 audio lsmod |grep snd
Try this: (THIS WORKED) A viable work around to get rid of pulseaudio piece o crap
rename pulse-default.conf in /etc/alsa to somethin else. (This file makes pulseaudio the default device for sound for alsa) run /sbin/alsactl restore
cd /etc/alsa mv pulse-default.conf pulse-default.SUCKS /sbin/alsactl restore mplayer /usr/share/sounds/what_the_hell.mp3
Audio playback successful!
Some people say remove the rpm
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
and another Fedora 8 person has urged me to install
kde-settings-pulse
$ xmms *
- PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
- WARNING **: alsa_setup(): Failed to open pcm device (default):
Connection refused
$ mplayer * ....
- PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Connection refused Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. Audio: no sound Video: no video ....
The solution isn't as simple as starting pulseaudio, though:
$ pulseaudio W: alsa-util.c: Cannot find mixer control "Master". E: module-alsa-source.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: No such file or directory E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device=hw:0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_1002_4383_alsa_capture_0"): initialization failed.