Bug 376851 - PCM optical output no longer works in fedora 8
Summary: PCM optical output no longer works in fedora 8
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pulseaudio
Version: 8
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-11-12 02:54 UTC by Tom Horsley
Modified: 2013-01-31 02:44 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 05:09:56 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
scsconfig.log saved from system-config-soundcard (50.02 KB, text/plain)
2007-11-12 02:54 UTC, Tom Horsley
no flags Details

Description Tom Horsley 2007-11-12 02:54:18 UTC
Description of problem:

It doesn't seem to be possible to send raw PCM audio out my motherboard's
optical sound port any more. This works in Fedora 7 (for doing things like
playing DVDs with 5.1 sound)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
alsa-utils-1.0.15-1.fc8
alsa-lib-1.0.15-1.fc8
bluez-utils-alsa-3.20-4.fc8
alsa-lib-1.0.15-1.fc8
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.14-5.fc8
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.15-1.fc8


How reproducible:
totally

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to find PCM output in mixer - it ain't there
2.
3.
  
Actual results:

no raw audio stream output

Expected results:

raw audio output

Additional info:

Here's the script I was using to successfully play DVDs on Fedora 7:

amixer set IEC958 unmute
amixer set 'IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA' 0
amixer set 'IEC958 Playback Source' PCM
exec mplayer dvd://1 -alang en -ao alsa:device=hw=0.0 -ac hwdts,hwac3,
-monitoraspect 16:9 -fs

I can't find any equivalent on Fedora 8.

Comment 1 Tom Horsley 2007-11-12 02:54:18 UTC
Created attachment 254891 [details]
scsconfig.log saved from system-config-soundcard

Comment 2 Tom Horsley 2007-11-12 23:38:09 UTC
After doing some reading, I have a feeling this has something to do
with pulseaudio. Are there instructions for dummies somewhere on how to
disable pulseaudio so I can see if it works once I do that?

Comment 3 Tom Horsley 2007-11-13 03:07:58 UTC
OK, definitely a pulseaudio issue. I used a big hammer and moved
/etc/alsa/pcm/pulseaudio.conf and /etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf
to a different directory, and everything is back to "normal".

Now I just gotta figure out the right way to do this without such
a big hammer (if pulseaudio was supposed to make my life simpler,
it didn't work :-).


Comment 4 Pitam 2007-11-15 10:54:53 UTC
remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio;

# rpm -e alsa-plugins-pulseaudio --nodeps

sound comes back again. I have all other things installed but removed this one
only. 

The issue is with that package (alsa-plugins-pulseaudio)

Comment 5 Trevor Cordes 2007-11-15 23:50:36 UTC
Perhaps related to my bug #385481 ?  I can't get SPDIF out to work in F8 on an
Audigy.  Worked fine in F7 and lower.


Comment 6 Martin Stransky 2007-12-07 11:12:55 UTC
okay, moved to pulseaudio.

Comment 7 Joseph A. Farmer 2008-01-30 00:24:48 UTC
This might be related?

Installed Fedora 8 some time ago on a Dell Dimension 5150.  All was well.  I
also use the digital output to a surround sound processor.  Everything has been
working well.  Until today.  Yum update pulled a bunch of packages having to do
with Pulse Audio.  After a reboot the machine lost its' ability to make noise.
Periodically after updates I have to go back into the switches tab in the volume
control and recheck the "SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack" as that must be
checked for this to work.  It's checked.  No sound.  I checked all 5 devices
that can be selected in the Volume Control Preferences applet:

SB Live 5.1 [SB0220] (Alsa mixer)<-- What normally works
SigmaTel something <---Never use.

There were more after that Pulse Audio thing was installed but I'm down to 2 for
a reason:

yum remove pulseaudio

and the problem was fixed.

This:
pulseaudio              i386       0.9.8-5.fc8      updates           334 k
is a bad egg.


Comment 8 Lennart Poettering 2008-03-28 20:11:16 UTC
For now PA doesn't support SPDIF natively. You can always bypass PA if you need
spdif support by using "spdif:0" (or suchlike) as ALSA device instead of the
default.

Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 08:20:01 UTC
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Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 05:09:56 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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