[AG-TECH] Can't Select Any Device - Rat on Fedora 13

[Christoph Willing]

Todd,

This may help:
     http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/accessgrid/howto/rat.html

The steps there seem convoluted & unnecessary but, if followed  
_precisely_, may do the job for you; its worked through many releases  
of Ubuntu and Slackware. Since the aim there is to use OSS (actually  
ALSA's emulation of OSS) instead of ALSA, you need the appropriate OSS  
packages installed. If you don't have them installed already and  
you've also removed all ALSA packages, it would explain why there is  
no audio device available.


chris


On 26/11/2010, at 8:34 AM, Todd Zimmerman wrote:

> Wondering if anyone else has seen this issue.
>
> I have a user that is running AG3.2 on Fedora 13.
>
> No matter what device he chooses in the drop down list of Audio  
> Devices, it returns to No Audio Device.
>
> These are the symptoms I see when some other software is 'holding'  
> the sound device; however we can't find any other device that could  
> be holding it.  We've double checked that alsa pulse plugin has been  
> removed.
>
> I've suggested he completely remove Pulse - reboot the computer and  
> attempt _before_ starting _any_ application... still nothing.
>
>
> Anyone got any advice?
>
> Todd
>
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