[ltp] what sound stack is operational

[Oisin Feeley]

The default in Fedora 7 is ALSA.  The quickest way to investigate
things is probably to run "gnome-sound-properties" from the
commandline (it pops up a GUI).

That provides the ability to set and test the available options.

After that you may want to check that the application(s) which are
failing each have their own preferences set to use the desired sound
daemon.

Probably you should take such a distro specific question to
http://www.fedoraforum.org/ remembering to specify that you're on
Fedora 7 (many people will be using Fedora 8 which comes with
PulseAudio which makes sound management _much_ easier: it allows the
independent setting of volume preferences for multiple streams, sort
of like the audio equivalent of a compositing window manager).

HTH,
Oisin Feeley

On 1/4/08, Dan Sawyer <dansawyer@earthlink.net> wrote:
> The system is FC7 on a T41. Sound is running, it is taking the input
> from the mike and transmitting to the speakers. There are several sound
> modules loaded.
>
> How can the running sound stack be identified?
>
> Several applications fail with error messages unable to access sound.
>
> Thanks - Dan
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