{"id":81,"date":"2007-01-13T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2007-01-13T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T13:50:00","slug":"sound-on-upgraded-fedora-core-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Sound on Upgraded Fedora Core 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most everything is working on my Fedora Core 6 upgrade.  MPEG sound doesn&#8217;t however.  Running a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-village.jp\/earth-c\/html\/9902feb\/html\/000014.html\">test video<\/a> shows the picture, but sound is a distorted white noise.  Thinking I might have some cruft left over from the prior installation, I loaded a fresh copy of Fedora Core 6 to see if it worked:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Create new partition of 10 GB (it could be smaller, but I have the space :-))<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Install Fedora Core 6 on it, being careful to not take the default of &#8220;wipe everything out and install&#8221; and <b>not<\/b> installing the boot loader<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>After the installation, boot back into my existing FC6 upgrade<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Add the new installation to <code>\/boot\/grub\/grub.conf<\/code>:<br \/><code>title Fedora Core 6 clean (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)<br \/>        root (hd1,9)<br \/>        kernel \/boot\/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=\/dev\/hdb10<br \/>        initrd \/boot\/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img<\/code><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Boot the fresh copy of FC6<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Install the media packages from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gagme.com\/greg\/linux\/fc6-tips.php\">Fedora Core 6 Tips and Tricks<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p>The test video was fine, so I knew there wasn&#8217;t a problem with FC6 and my hardware.  Next, find out what:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Save a copy of <code>rpm -qa | sort<\/code><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Save a copy of <code>\/sbin\/lsmod<\/code><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Boot back to the FC6 upgrade<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Compare the RPM lists<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p>Immediately (well, it <i>was<\/i> at the top of the list) I saw that the upgrade had <code>a52dec-0.7.4-8.fc6<\/code> and the clean install had <code>a52dec-0.7.4-10.lvn6<\/code>.  I ran <code>yum remove a52dec<\/code> and 15 packages went with it.  At that point, I started with the Tips and Tricks instructions to replace all the media packages.<\/p>\n<p>One problem during the MP3 plugin step was the dependency of xmms-faad on faad2.  This was solved with <br \/><code>yum remove faad2<\/code><br \/><code>yum install --enablerepo=livna --disablerepo=freshrpms faad2<\/code><br \/>The key is to get the package that ends in &#8220;lvn6&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The rest went pretty smoothly and now mplayer sounds fine again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most everything is working on my Fedora Core 6 upgrade. MPEG sound doesn&#8217;t however. Running a test video shows the picture, but sound is a distorted white noise. Thinking I might have some cruft left over from the prior installation, I loaded a fresh copy of Fedora Core 6 to see if it worked: Create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}