HOWTO: PulseAudio Fixes & System-Wide Equalizer Support

[manlypain]

What happens if you try to reinstall the plugin?

$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

here you go

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-nonfree is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libcommons-lang-java libswt3.2-gtk-jni
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (10.0.1.218+10.0.0.569ubuntu1~ppa2) ...
Installing from local file /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplayer10_install_linux_081108.tar.gz
Flash Plugin installed.
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libcurl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
flashplugin-nonfree
Updating Debian Packages of System Configurations (dpsyco).
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[psyke83]

here you go

Ok, thanks for the output. I think I know the problem - give me a little while to sort it out. The ia32-libs needs to be updated with the new dependencies.

[manlypain]

Take all the time you need. Thanks for all the hard work.

[ethos_dacapo]

Please have a look at this if you will...

$ pkill pulseaudio
$ pulseaudio
W: main.c: RLIMIT_RTPRIO failed: Operation not permitted
ALSA lib pcm_ladspa.c:1275:(snd_pcm_ladspa_parse_controls) Control port 2 has not an float or integer value
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL equalized
ALSA lib conf.c:3952:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 0
ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround71:0
E: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busy
E: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_8086_2485_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0"): initialization failed.
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0

I was hoping to get the eq working on my laptop speakers. My sound is the same as before except now sometimes there is a delay in sounds like when someone IMs me. Thanks for your help

[haxwithaxe]

I'm a little confused. Which parameter are you referring to by "rate"? There are only two exposed settings for fragments, and they are:

default-fragments = 4
default-fragment-size-msec = 25

If you were referring to "default-sample-rate" when you mention "rate", you shouldn't change that value: it has nothing to do with fragments or buffers, but it is the default sample rate in which PulseAudio uses. This should be left alone in most circumstances.

Sorry,
Late night that night. By rate I mean "default-fragment".

[Toshibawarrior]

Hmmm...I still need help with Audacity and Hydrogen...read my posts above for details!...

Please help me!

[jacobmh]

I still have the same problem, even after trying the fix. Of course, my terminal did say that I did not have the asound directories, so do I need to get those for this to work?

[psyke83]

I still have the same problem, even after trying the fix. Of course, my terminal did say that I did not have the asound directories, so do I need to get those for this to work?

What asound directories? Please be more specific. Post logs of apt-get when you performed the upgrade and let me know your basic system specs (32bit or 64bit).

[psyke83]

Hmmm...I still need help with Audacity and Hydrogen...read my posts above for details!...

Please help me!

Audacity and Hydrogen are not PulseAudio compatible. Until those application fix their ALSA implementation, they can't cooperate with PulseAudio.

To use those applications, you'll need to either a) ensure you run Audacity or Hydrogen without other applications on your system accessing the sound card, or b) temporarily disable PulseAudio while using those applications:

$ pulseaudio -k
mv ~/.asoundrc ~/.asoundrc.disabled

To re-enable:

$ pulseaudio
mv ~/.asoundrc.disabled ~/.asoundrc

[Toshibawarrior]

Audacity and Hydrogen are not PulseAudio compatible. Until those application fix their ALSA implementation, they can't cooperate with PulseAudio.

To use those applications, you'll need to either a) ensure you run Audacity or Hydrogen without other applications on your system accessing the sound card, or b) temporarily disable PulseAudio while using those applications:

$ pulseaudio -k
mv ~/.asoundrc ~/.asoundrc.disabled

To re-enable:

$ pulseaudio
mv ~/.asoundrc.disabled ~/.asoundrc

Thanks a lot!