petermck
October 23rd, 2011, 10:59 PM
When searching for problems related to sound and Firefox running slow or other issues like this, I came up with so many posts that I decided to start a new one because this fix seems to have worked on various problems.
After a fresh install of 11.10 64-bit, I had various problems:
Firefox hanging for a long time when trying to right click and open a link in a tab or new window
Firefox not playing video in Youtube
Firefox generally operating slowly
No sound
Other applications/Firefox extns (possibly related to sound??) seemed to hang sometimes.
On the advice of another post at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...hlight=banshee I did this:
sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base
sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio
sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install alsa-base
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
When removing alsa-base, apt-get also removed some ubuntu-desktop associated stuff so I also:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
and then rebooted. I suggest it's fairly important (or at least prudent) to do the sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop step before rebooting. I'm not sure what affect omitting this might have.
As far as I can tell, everything seems to be working properly now. The only remaining issue I see is that the speaker icon has disappeared from the toolbar, but this is minor.
All the other issues listed above seem to have been fixed.
After a fresh install of 11.10 64-bit, I had various problems:
Firefox hanging for a long time when trying to right click and open a link in a tab or new window
Firefox not playing video in Youtube
Firefox generally operating slowly
No sound
Other applications/Firefox extns (possibly related to sound??) seemed to hang sometimes.
On the advice of another post at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...hlight=banshee I did this:
sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base
sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio
sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install alsa-base
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
When removing alsa-base, apt-get also removed some ubuntu-desktop associated stuff so I also:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
and then rebooted. I suggest it's fairly important (or at least prudent) to do the sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop step before rebooting. I'm not sure what affect omitting this might have.
As far as I can tell, everything seems to be working properly now. The only remaining issue I see is that the speaker icon has disappeared from the toolbar, but this is minor.
All the other issues listed above seem to have been fixed.