Description of problem: (This may be a problem with some component other than alsa ...) The initial mixer settings on my laptop have two things labelled "front", one of which is muted and set to zero. This means that I don't have any sound until I turn it up. I'll attach a screenshot of kmix. This is with the onboard Intel sound on a laptop; lspci says it's a "Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)". Note that this is new since the beta, as I did have sound from the start with the F9 beta live image (KDE) but I don't have sound with the 20080404 rawhide snapshot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): alsa-lib-1.0.16-3.fc9.i386
Created attachment 301378 [details] My initial mixer settings as shown by kmix
Well, sound setting is now managed by pulse audio. Reassigning....
Uh. Sensible initial initialization of the audio device is going to stay something that should happen outside of PA. Right now we have this awful alsaunmute script which tries to initialize the sound card mixer properly in some way and is run form udev when a new device is found. It doesn't do a good job with it. PA will svae and restore volumes. But only of the Master slider. All other controls are expected to be initialized by "alsactl init" in the future. Please also read this huge thread: http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2008-April/007071.html In short: Yes, we know that the mixer is configured pretty badly by default these days. It's going to improve. But it is unlikely to improve so much that we find good defaults for all people by default.
Can you attach on output of "amixer" console utility?
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Here's the output, for posterity ... but now that I've installed the final version of Fedora 9, this seems no longer to be an issue in any case. Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 65536 Mono: Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on] Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on] Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 65536 Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [off] Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [off]