PulseAudio- no sound

[fa7ll7en]

ok i really need some help!
i've tried the various how-to's and been unable to resolve my issue: I have no sound.
somehow, throughout this whole endeavour, i've gone from having sound (through the right speaker only!), to no sound (while seeing the meters bump up and down while playing a cd!) and now when i try to open the pulseaudio volume control it says "failed: connection refused" when i try:

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ pulseaudio -k
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
Segmentation fault

I've been trying different things for the past three days with no results, i am sure that there is something that i have overlooked, can someone help me?

ok here's some information:

[liveuser@localhost /]$ uname -r
2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686

This is a live usb, so i cant seem to upgrade the kernel (this was an issue with my nvidia drivers but i force installed some old files and now compiz works fine) and so that may be the source of my problems but i dont know.

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ rpm  -qa | grep alsa
alsa-utils-1.0.19-2.fc10.i386
python-alsaaudio-0.4-1.fc10.i386
alsa-plugins-jack-1.0.18-2.fc10.i386
bluez-alsa-4.30-2.fc10.i386
alsa-lib-1.0.19-2.fc10.i386
alsa-plugins-samplerate-1.0.18-2.fc10.i386
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.fc10.i386
alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.4.rc1.fc9.2.i386
alsa-plugins-oss-1.0.18-2.fc10.i386
alsa-oss-libs-1.0.17-1.fc10.i386
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.18-2.fc10.i386
python-alsa-1.0.17-1.fc10.i386

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep pulse
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.14-1.fc10.i386
xine-lib-pulseaudio-1.1.16.2-3.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.14-1.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.14-1.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.14-1.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.14-1.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-core-libs-0.9.14-1.fc10.i386
xmms-pulse-0.9.4-6.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-0.9.14-1.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.14-1.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.14-1.fc10.i386
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.18-2.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.14-1.fc10.i386

here are the results of:

[liveuser@localhost tmp]$ alsa-info.sh

!!Kernel Information
!!------------------

Kernel release:    2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686
Operating System:  GNU/Linux
Architecture:      i686
Processor:         athlon
SMP Enabled:       Yes


!!ALSA Version
!!------------

Driver version:     1.0.17
Library version:    
Utilities version:  1.0.19


!!Loaded ALSA modules
!!-------------------

snd_hda_intel


!!Sound Servers on this system
!!----------------------------

Pulseaudio:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio)
      Running - No

Jack:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/jackd)
      Running - No


!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
!!-----------------------------

 0 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xb0000000 irq 21


!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
!!--------------------------------------

00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)

more infromation can be found at : http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=ec...295f17ab196160

if you need any more information from me i will be glad to provide it ( i am new to linux so i would benefit from explicit instructions, i know i have a lot to learn!!)

thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

3/23
ok so i actually pulled out a set of headphones and i do have sound with the headphones.
i've tried using alsamixer to see if there are any muted channels and everything is at 100%
any ideas? thanks.

[fa7ll7en]

So i reinstalled fedora on my flash drive and still only have sound through my headphones. ( i guess that is good for my roomate who probably doesnt always like my music!) i have removed pulseaudio as it was filling up my /var/log/messages with seg fault errors, but my question is this:

how do i enable my pc speakers?

i have no idea how to go about it and i'm searching all over the place. any help would be greatly appreciated thanks

[lollysticky]

I'm not at all an expert on this matter, but i had kinda a similar problem...

I threw everything away and purely installed the alsa-plugin-pulseaudio package, and it worked. It could be that all those files you installed there give rise to conflicts...

[Max.Wang]

I think there is many problem with pulse audio on fedora 10.
The pulseaudio process often freezed and no sound output .

[lollysticky]

Originally Posted by Max.Wang

I think there is many problem with pulse audio on fedora 10.
The pulseaudio process often freezed and no sound output .

you're right... it went wrong again... i went to system > system settings > sound and i switched everything to HDA Intel (AD198x Digital) instead of PulseAUdio and now everything keeps on functioning fine :P

[fa7ll7en]

here's the thing:
i had audio at one point with fedora but it was just the right speaker, then i lost everything while i was trying to change various settings to get sound (amixer, alsamixer, etc). You should know that i was booting off of a live usb, and i had windows xp on the hard drive. at some point i lost audio in windows( i almost always have the sound muted so it took me a while to notice this!) i dont think that it is a problem that is related to fedora, my computer is an hp dv6110us... i've already had it serviced through a recall for the broadcom drivers so it would not be surprising if the speakers failed! but if there is some setting that i have missed i would love to find it!

I do have sound through the digital output and through the headphones, the mixer levels wobble enough that you know you are getting output and input, even though i didnt know that this computer had a built in mic and i have had it for a few years now! it's just that there is no sound through the onboard speakers.
look, i just erased my xp partition and am in the midst of updates now. (it seems that wine can run autocad 2002 and cubase se so i dont need windows anymore! but i would like someone to tell me that they have nuendo up and running!!!!) I'm just trying to learn my way around this whole linux thing.. the last time i tried it was red hat in.... oh 98!
does anyone know whether this is me missing something in the mixer or some hardware setting or is it just my speakers deciding to take a crap?

oh and lollysticky,

i removed pulseaudio and went with the pure alsa and it didnt make a difference.... like i said i lost audio in windows. do you have any other ideas? anything would help!

thanks!

[marcrblevins]

Search this forum for 'pulseaudio -k'.

[SuperSAFH]

I finally nailed it!

I'm using an old Fedora 12 distribution with the nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2).
After an update, PulseAudio would not produce any sound and no card was found.
Many fruitless hours later, the unexpected answer appeared from the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio page.

Adding "load-module module-alsa-sink device="hw:0,0" sink_name=analog_output" to /etc/pulse/default.pa and in effect redirecting sound output through the ALSA-driver, was the solution.
PulseAudio still can't find any cards, but now it doesn't have to.

Hope this is usefull for someone.