[SOLVED] Alsa sound problems on 64 bit caused by multiple alsa pulse audio plugins

[jinliew]

I recently upgraded from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 and had difficulty getting sound working. In the end, the problem seemed to be that the 64bit Alsa pulseaudio plugin had been installed, and the old Fedora 10 32bit plugin had not been removed. Uninstalling the latter seemed to resolve the issue.

This seems to have occurred with other Fedora 10 packages too.

[scottro]

Thank you for sharing. I'm going to mark this solved, since there seem to be many pulse problems going around, and this might help someone else searching.

[jinliew]

Thanks.

Some further info on my setup:
Creative XFi sound card
Onboard sound from Asus P6T Deluxe V2
Fedora 11 64 bit (upgraded from Fedora 10 64 bit)

The symptom was extremely distorted sound, to the point where it did not resemble the original in any way - more like a series of clicks.

The main issue was with wine, which I configured to use Alsa for sound, although sometimes my music player would also have problems.

[axishift]

Mine was a bit different. I am running fedora linux 10 on a PPC G5 and it says...

snd-powermac no longer handles any machines with a layout-id property in the device-tree, use snd-aoa.

I removed all pulseaudio and installed only alsa sound, but I think I missed something.