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steak-sandwich
September 9th, 2008, 09:30 PM
I installed Ubuntu 8.04 and everything works. My sound works as well but there is only one problem which I didn't have with all the previous versions.
For instance, when I open skype I get sound but if I open mplayer or watch a video on youtube I don't get sound from this source. Then I have to close skype and re-open mplayer, firefox.....to watch a video or listen to some music.
It's independent of the applications, I just can't get sound from 2 different programs. Why? This used to work. And it even works with Windows!! :-)

Thanks,

BEN

mikewhatever
September 9th, 2008, 09:58 PM
The problem is pulseaudio. Go to System ->Preferences->Sounds and change everything to alsa in the first tab.

Vivaldi Gloria
September 10th, 2008, 12:12 AM
The following guide fixes pulseaudio bugs:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4928900

steak-sandwich
September 12th, 2008, 12:01 PM
okay thanks, I have already seen this thread about the pulseaudio bug. I thought I can avoid it but it seems like this is the problem.