[Liverpool] geek support needed!

[Sebastian]

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).

Few more things:

1. I've tried the website you mentioned (www.afolksongaday.com) and it 
works fine on my Slackware machine on Firefox.

2. You didn't say which version of Ubuntu you have.

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?


Regards,

Sebastian


On 02/11/2011 08:57 PM, phil hargreaves wrote:
> hiya
>
> i've been on the list for some time, but pretty much lurking - i've been
> a linux user for years, but not ardkore, if you see what i mean. I
> homebrew my own machines, fix my mates computer problems etc, but i
> don't program or such.
>
> Anyways - i've given up on SuSE after some years of use, and installed
> Ubuntu. Which works OK, apart from the sound - the machine recognises my
> card for input, but all i'm offered for playback is 'dummy output'.
> Which don't work, as you might imagine. I've persuaded aplay to work
> from a terminal, so ALSA is talking to the card etc. But no further -
> what 'help' files Ubuntu offers (that i've so far been able to find)
> are, frankly, very little help. I've tried what will fit, but no joy -
> most of it is geared towards situations where the card is unrecognised,
> but as far as i can see it's Gnome that's not seeing the output side. If
> aplay works, then ALSA must be seeing the card OK. However, i still
> can't hit 'play' on http://www.afolksongaday.com/ and actually hear
> anything. Which is where i'd like to be. I'm imagining there's a .conf
> file somewhere with this info (not) in it. But i haven't identified it
> yet, or been able to modify it.
>
> Any clues would be very gratefully received!!
>
> phil hargreaves
>
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