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its_jon
November 11th, 2008, 03:57 PM
Hello friends.

I upgraded to 8:10 online .... everything appears to be working as before except my sound.

My first ever up and running Linux was 8.04.... and I had to download the Envy24 sound stuff in synaptic to get sound.
Sound was AWESOME through my teretec card....

Lost sound with 8:10 upgrade though..... I get the little drum sound on boot at the password screen... then nothing.

I seem to have checked and unchecked everything I can find to do with the Envy24 sound driver UI and also the Ubuntu system/pref/sound options..

Help :)

and Thanks

John
Scotland

its_jon
November 12th, 2008, 03:26 PM
help thanks :)

its_jon
November 13th, 2008, 10:33 AM
If someone could point me towards a thread of relevance that would be great

thanks

its_jon
November 15th, 2008, 01:06 PM
help :-|

its_jon
November 15th, 2008, 02:22 PM
I read somewhere to type alsamixer into a terminal....

I did....

I got this

│ Card: PulseAudio
│ Chip: PulseAudio
│ View: [Playback] Capture All
│ Item: Master [Off]


any ideas ?

warbread
November 15th, 2008, 02:40 PM
I just fixed this problem myself. I have a Delta 1010 and as soon as I went to 8.10, sound became an issue. It seems that getting rid of Pulseaudio fixes the problem. I don't know if PA is the problem per-se, but it's yet another reason I hate the shiny new audio server that has been a thorn in my side since it was forced on Ubuntu users.

Here's the instructions that I followed (http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/alsa-instead-of-pulseaudio-for-ubuntu-810-intrepid-a-non-destructive-way/). Don't forget to thank the blog poster for their trouble!!

its_jon
November 18th, 2008, 03:19 PM
Thanks for the link.....

followed instructions....

and it simply started to work again :) !!

super !....

If only I actually knew what I did I would feel better about myself......


for now though Im just happy its working... whats pulse anyway ?

warbread
November 18th, 2008, 04:14 PM
PulseAudio (formerly PolypAudio) is a cross-platform (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-platform), networked sound server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_server) project. It is intended to be an improved drop-in replacement for the Enlightened Sound Daemon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightened_Sound_Daemon) (ESD).

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulseaudio)

It's not a bad idea, per-se, but I've been fighting with it on my Linux DAW since it became the default sound server in Ubuntu.