Description of problem: The sound check in firstboot worked. It doesn't work in GNOME. This is a Thinkpad Z61t laptop. http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=022c3fe0-053a-4e67-bfba-bb007a7f09b0 From ~/.xsession-errors: sound-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink': Internal GStreamer error: state change failed. Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer. [gstswitchsink.c(155): gst_switch_commit_new_kid (): /pipeline0/gconfaudiosink0: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pulseaudio-0.9.7-0.11.svn20070907.fc8 gstreamer-0.10.14-3.fc8
Created attachment 199321 [details] Gstreamer error
Same problem with me using IBM Thinkpad T43 laptop. Sometimes after I reboot, the sound works but most often the sound is not working at all and I'm having the error as shown on my attachment. gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.14-5.fc8 gstreamer-0.10.14-3.fc8 gstreamer-tools-0.10.14-3.fc8 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.6-5.fc8 Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23-0.185.rc6.git7.fc8 #1 SMP Mon Sep 17 18:14:46 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Basically, until I kill -9 pulseaudio and restart it, I've got no sound at all.
I tried what Zack did (killed pulseaudio and restart it) and the sound works.
Do you have install gstreamer-plugins-pulseaudio? Could you please check whether "pacat /dev/urandom" works and produces some white noise on your boxes?
s/install/installed/ sorry, it's getting late here aorund ;-)
yum is telling me gstreamer-plugins-pulseaudio doesn't exist.
The updates last Friday (September 21) fixed my sound problems. The sound is now working properly. I have the following components installed: gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.14-5.fc8 gstreamer-0.10.14-3.fc8 gstreamer-tools-0.10.14-3.fc8 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.6-5.fc8 pulseaudio-lib-0.9.7-0.11.svn20070907.fc8 pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.7-0.11.svn20070907.fc8 pulseaudio-0.9.7-0.11.svn20070907.fc8 akode-pulseaudio-2.0.1-8.fc8
(In reply to comment #7) > yum is telling me gstreamer-plugins-pulseaudio doesn't exist. Sorry, the name is gstreamer-plugins-pulse
Yes, I have it installed. And I haven't seen the problem in this report recently, so I'll close it for now. Both 'Test' buttons in the 'Audio Conferencing' section of gnome-sound-properties are doing very, very scary things. I'll file a new bug about that.
The "scary things" may have been a false alarm...