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keywords:fedora,sound,alsa,arts,pulse,pulseaudio,root,sound,device,not,found,cannot,connect description:Setup sound for Fedora 8 with pulseaudio and ALSA. title:Fedora sound notes - Fedora 8 sound relies on pulseaudio drivers. Heaven only knows why issues with ALSA weren't simply fixed. The new system requires ConsoleKit, haldaemon, and avahi-daemon. With all three of those enabled, plus having the pulseaudio .rpm packages, XMMS is able to play sound as a non-root user. http://lindesk.com/2007/11/sound-issue-in-fedora-8/ Enable the daemons with chkconfig, and reboot. Stopping and starting them didn't seem to work. HAL in particular doesn't seem to want to stop. I didn't spend much time testing to see if merely changing runlevel settings and using telinit would save a reboot. [root@zeus ~]# chkconfig --list | grep 5:on ConsoleKit 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off autofs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off avahi-daemon 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off cups 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off httpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off irqbalance 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off messagebus 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off microcode_ctl 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off postgresql 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off restorecond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off rsyslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off udev-post 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off webmin 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off [root@zeus ~]# - Disk drives are not named the same as with previous versions of Fedora. Old: /dev/hda New: /dev/sdb Old: /dev/sda New: /dev/sda Not only are the new names SCSI based, but the a/b has switched. I suggest that you physically disconnect any drives that you do not wish to format during installation. The Fedora installer "Anaconda" identifies drives by their model number, and will more or less arbitralily assign drive letters. It is good if you determine (write on a piece of paper) your hard drive model numbers. This could be especially confusing if you have multiple identical hard drives. - As far as I can tell, the default LVM partition scheme includes /home as part of / which means if you ever re-install, you'll have to backup your /home directories and restore them. I suggest that you create a separate logical volume for /home. Apparently this can be on the same physical volume as /. I tested this by re-installing Fedora 8 and telling Disk Druid to only format / leaving /home and everything else untouched. This worked, and all files remained intact on /home/. I'm still somewhat confused about layout and usefulness of LVM (especially on a machine with only one disk). This is what I'm currently using. Use my advice with caution. I got the layout below by letting DiskDruid create a default setup, and then I made an additional LogVol in VolGroup00. I gave 8GB to / and 2GB to swap and the remainder to /home. (Note that under FC6 my drive was called /dev/hda and under Fedora 8 has become /dev/sda, although I'd swear that during the install it was callde /dev/sdb. Reading between the lines, now even IDE ATA drives are somehow treated as SCSI drives.) [mst3k@zeus ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 7.6G 4.9G 2.4G 68% / /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 63G 50G 9.6G 84% /home /dev/sda1 190M 13M 169M 7% /boot tmpfs 506M 192K 505M 1% /dev/shm [mst3k@zeus ~]#