Re: FC9 - sounds of silence

[Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 17 May 2008 13:51, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I did an upgrade from FC9beta to the release version, and everything
> worked fine until I tried to play a clip from CNN. Then I tried youtube,
> mlb.com, no sound anywhere, even though sound had been working. Appears
> that pulseaudio has decided to take over sound and not let me use it.
>
Did you check that you had libflashsupport installed?

> Finally backed up and did and install from cold, sound worked, did the
> updates from the fedora and updates repositories, sound worked but no
> flash, added flash from the adobe site, clips play as silent movies.
>
> Looked for the pulseaudio docs, and decided people haven't improved them
> since FC6, no hint of what to change, tons of other "no sound" posts on
> various places.
>
> Many other problems, reinstalled FC8, all working again. And I briefly
> had ubuntu on the machine and that worked, so the issues seem to be with
> the FC9 release, no just Linux on this hardware.
>
> My feeling is that if I wanted an OS which insisted on doing things the
> way the developer wanted, with docs which didn't cover the basics and
> had only examples of the most complex cases rather than the things 90%
> of users would want, I would be running Windows.
>
Well you gave F9 plenty of time to prove itself, didn't you?<sarcasm off>

Anne

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