[ltp] what sound stack is operational

[Dan Sawyer]

Thanks.

Is there documentation for how this works?

Are these system or user parameters?

Are the options derived from the system or are they hard coded?

Thanks - Dan

Oisin Feeley wrote:
> 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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