chris3030
May 2nd, 2010, 01:09 AM
A brief background: I am a former Gutsy and Hardy user that loved ubuntu, but at that point it just wasn't ready so I went back to windows and recently came back to ubuntu with Karmic. I had been having some sound problems with Karmic (see my previous thread regarding this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1446162).
I have tried almost everything possible to solve this..every possible fix and guide out there regarding pulseaudio, ALSA, etc with no success. I have searched this site as well as google exhaustively and I was unable to fix the problems and get the sound workable in Karmic so to spare my sanity, I decided to put it off until Lucid came out.
Lucid is here and I am still having the same problems. To sum it up they are as follows:
MP3s will play for maybe 30-45 seconds before I hear silence then the rest of the songs will automatically fast forward with no sound. On occasion, it will not cut out but the sound will skip and sound all garbled.
Video files will rarely play. They will play with VLC however with similar results to the MP3s (the sound will cut out after a certain amount of time).
The sound on online videos will only work about 20% of the time using Chrome and about 40% of the time using Firefox. When the sound does work, once again it is only for a limited time before cutting out.
To clarify a few things, I have installed the restricted extras package and all of the gstreamer packages. As I stated earlier I have researched this exhaustively and have tried every fix that I could come across all over the internet with no success.
I really want this to be fixed so I can have a fully functioning computer without having to go back to windows. Ubuntu is just so awesome to use and I'd like to continue to use it so I am begging for any experts out there to help me fix this.
I have tried almost everything possible to solve this..every possible fix and guide out there regarding pulseaudio, ALSA, etc with no success. I have searched this site as well as google exhaustively and I was unable to fix the problems and get the sound workable in Karmic so to spare my sanity, I decided to put it off until Lucid came out.
Lucid is here and I am still having the same problems. To sum it up they are as follows:
MP3s will play for maybe 30-45 seconds before I hear silence then the rest of the songs will automatically fast forward with no sound. On occasion, it will not cut out but the sound will skip and sound all garbled.
Video files will rarely play. They will play with VLC however with similar results to the MP3s (the sound will cut out after a certain amount of time).
The sound on online videos will only work about 20% of the time using Chrome and about 40% of the time using Firefox. When the sound does work, once again it is only for a limited time before cutting out.
To clarify a few things, I have installed the restricted extras package and all of the gstreamer packages. As I stated earlier I have researched this exhaustively and have tried every fix that I could come across all over the internet with no success.
I really want this to be fixed so I can have a fully functioning computer without having to go back to windows. Ubuntu is just so awesome to use and I'd like to continue to use it so I am begging for any experts out there to help me fix this.