[Liverpool] Ubuntu sound prob

[Stephen Watkin]

If it's just to test the sound out, you could just boot into a live CD 
to save you the messing of a full re-install. If it doesn't work on the 
live CD I'll bet my bottom dollar it still won't work after you've 
installed it to disk.

Failing that, I've got loads of old PCI sound cards lying around the 
house you'd be welcome to (if it's actually a desktop machine, that is)

Ste

On 12/02/11 11:45, Sebastian wrote:
> Do I remember correctly that people were complaining that Pulseaudio 
> configuration under previous versions of Ubuntu was really lacking? 
> Sorry to offer such as standard 'Windowze' advice - but I would have 
> thought that installing first the latest (10.10) Ubuntu would be a 
> good idea. Let us know if it still doesn't work after the upgrade and 
> will take the troubleshooting further. A clean install (not in-place 
> upgrade) would be preferable - to make sure no current configuration 
> files get left behind.
>
> Sebastian
>
>
> On 02/12/2011 10:17 AM, phil hargreaves wrote:
>> On 11/02/11 23:28, liverpool-request at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:
>>> Hi Phil,
>>>
>>> Welcome to the list!
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I will be able to help you much. I'm afraid I'm a 
>>> Slackware
>>> man myself. However, I've done several Ubuntu 10.10 installs recently -
>>> and I've noticed that Pulseaudio is used by default - in between
>>> whatever software you are using and Alsa. I had myself some problems
>>> with Pulseaudio on these Ubuntu machines - mainly with sound stuttering
>>> and freezing after a while.
>>>
>>> I hope somebody who runs Ubuntu will be soon along with more Ubuntu or
>>> Gnome specific suggestions (although I wouldn't have thought it is 
>>> Gnome
>>> that's at fault - as you don't have problems with system sounds - but I
>>> could be wrong).
>> no - there's no sound on anything. See below
>>> Few more things:
>>>
>>> 1. I've tried the website you mentioned (www.afolksongaday.com) and it
>>> works fine on my Slackware machine on Firefox.
>> it worked fine on SuSE before as well.
>>> 2. You didn't say which version of Ubuntu you have.
>>
>> 10.04 - should i try upgrading to 10.10?
>>
>>> 3. If you click on the speaker icon in the top right corner, and then
>>> 'Sound Preferences' - what do you have listed under the 'Hardware' tab?
>>
>> This is the odd bit. Under 'Input' it lists my sound card (ICE1712
>> [envy24] - an MAudio Delta 44). But under 'Output' it just lists 'Dummy
>> Output (stereo)'. So glad it's a stereo dummy output, mono would be just
>> dreadful. Under 'Hardware' it lists the card, but as only having input.
>>
>> i've persuaded 'aplay' to work from a terminal, so i'm concluding that
>> ALSA is OK, but Gnome, for its own reasons, hasn't acknowledged the
>> output side of the card. And i'm not sure how to persuade it to do so.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> phil h
>>
>>
>>
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