btbluesky
October 31st, 2009, 08:26 AM
Long story short. Been a linux user for 10 yrs, using ubuntu since Dapper. Also an audio lover, using outboard USB DAC (been working flawlessly in linux w/ USB sound driver)
Upgraded Karmic, read all the upgrade instruction, went through it smoothly. Reboot, all sound don't work, the new "multimedia" setting in the "System Setting" doesn't even list the USB hardware, only onboard sound. Even dmesg listed it as well as alsa aplay and vlc.
Seems like pulseaudio (...again...) is acting up, which I've been dealing with every 6 months now.
After going through dozens of things to get the pulseaudio to at least get some sound out. Gave up and sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
It does remove the meta package ubuntu-desktop, but since it has nothing in it, I think it's fine.
Reboot, now the vlc is playing, mplayer is playing by setting hw=1.0 (or whatever your usb sound device is).
Not saying anything about pulseaudio, there might be alot of scenarios for its usage, plus it might be ubuntu team's fault as well. But when u plug in the most common 16bits USB sound chip in, and cannot be found in System Setting, but in all other apps, someone is at fault.
Also, I'm not an audiophile, but I ABSOLUTELY abhorred by what goes in to the default sound setup in recent releases. Have not look at Fedora or Gentoo (2 of my other favorites), but WHY IS IT SO HARD TO GIVE USER AN OPTION TO SEND SIGNAL DIRECTLY TO ALSA THEN DEVICE? (I'll deal w/ the dmix myself...) Is it too much to ask for a shortest path for sound signal.
If you do these crap in network, someone's going fork your code so fast like gentoo in deepblue. But apparently in sound, its the preferred way to add as many layers of things as possible.
Upgraded Karmic, read all the upgrade instruction, went through it smoothly. Reboot, all sound don't work, the new "multimedia" setting in the "System Setting" doesn't even list the USB hardware, only onboard sound. Even dmesg listed it as well as alsa aplay and vlc.
Seems like pulseaudio (...again...) is acting up, which I've been dealing with every 6 months now.
After going through dozens of things to get the pulseaudio to at least get some sound out. Gave up and sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
It does remove the meta package ubuntu-desktop, but since it has nothing in it, I think it's fine.
Reboot, now the vlc is playing, mplayer is playing by setting hw=1.0 (or whatever your usb sound device is).
Not saying anything about pulseaudio, there might be alot of scenarios for its usage, plus it might be ubuntu team's fault as well. But when u plug in the most common 16bits USB sound chip in, and cannot be found in System Setting, but in all other apps, someone is at fault.
Also, I'm not an audiophile, but I ABSOLUTELY abhorred by what goes in to the default sound setup in recent releases. Have not look at Fedora or Gentoo (2 of my other favorites), but WHY IS IT SO HARD TO GIVE USER AN OPTION TO SEND SIGNAL DIRECTLY TO ALSA THEN DEVICE? (I'll deal w/ the dmix myself...) Is it too much to ask for a shortest path for sound signal.
If you do these crap in network, someone's going fork your code so fast like gentoo in deepblue. But apparently in sound, its the preferred way to add as many layers of things as possible.