Re: why oh why...

2010-06-28 Thread Roger Searle
On 26/06/10 4:50 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Don Robertsond...@robertson.net.nz wrote: On 16/06/10 09:43, Steve Holdoway wrote: Just no output on either device. Can anyone point me to a decent, up to date ( this is ubuntu 9.10 ) troubleshooting guide.

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-25 Thread Don Robertson
On 16/06/10 09:43, Steve Holdoway wrote: Just no output on either device. Can anyone point me to a decent, up to date ( this is ubuntu 9.10 ) troubleshooting guide. I was having problems with audio on a Kubuntu system updated to 9.10 with pulse audio installed. I installed 10.4 to clean up

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-25 Thread Daniel Hill
DVD-player -- dmix (48 kHz) -- sample-conversion (48--44.1) -- dmix (44.1) -- sound card your system is redundant you don't need two dmix plugins my system is setup with: samplerate converter (called plug)-- dmix sound card [well it's a bit more complex ( http://pastebin.org/359575)] It

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Don Robertson d...@robertson.net.nz wrote: On 16/06/10 09:43, Steve Holdoway wrote: Just no output on either device. Can anyone point me to a decent, up to date ( this is ubuntu 9.10 ) troubleshooting guide. I was having problems with audio on a Kubuntu

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-21 Thread Daniel Hill
And finally with the last few versions of Ubuntu there is a push for pulseaudio which I think is utter rubbish. It seems to me the real problem lies in ALSA's inability to work with more then one source. There are some workarounds that disable ALSA from locking the card to one app. I

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Irons
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 10:23 +1200, solor...@epic.geek.nz wrote: On Wed, June 16, 2010 09:43, Steve Holdoway wrote: ... cant linux get it's sound sorted out properly? I share your frustration with Linux sound. We started with OSS, which was okay *if* you had a card that was supported.

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote: ... cant linux get it's sound sorted out properly? I've lost mine again... I know it works as I get a 'click' when a new window opens. But playing anything at all - forget it. System says everything's fine.  Gnome

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-15 Thread solorvox
On Wed, June 16, 2010 09:43, Steve Holdoway wrote: ... cant linux get it's sound sorted out properly? I've lost mine again... I know it works as I get a 'click' when a new window opens. But playing anything at all - forget it. System says everything's fine. Gnome sound preferences widget

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-15 Thread Barry
Steve Holdoway wrote: ... cant linux get it's sound sorted out properly? I've lost mine again... I know it works as I get a 'click' when a new window opens. But playing anything at all - forget it. System says everything's fine. Gnome sound preferences widget can see both the analog stereo

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-15 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, Steve Holdoway wrote: Or start a project to provide a sane alternative to alsa... (: --they have. It is called pulse. Sound is one area where linux fails quite badly. Indeed, it is proof that linux is not ready for the desktop of the ordinary user. If you cannot get sound to work for

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-15 Thread Craig Falconer
Steve Holdoway wrote, On 06/16/2010 09:43 AM: ... cant linux get it's sound sorted out properly? Now I have that damn nursery song in my head... over and over. Thanks, Steve. -- Craig Falconer

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-15 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 11:23 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote, On 06/16/2010 09:43 AM: ... cant linux get it's sound sorted out properly? Now I have that damn nursery song in my head... over and over. Thanks, Steve. Any time, young man (: Eventually, a Microsoft solution

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-15 Thread Robert Fisher
And I got my headphones and usb headset working again. But why did it break in the first place??? I got sick of the mic on my USB webcam/mic turning off and connected a mic to the audio-in socket. It has not failed since. -- Regards, Robert

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-15 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 11:23 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote, On 06/16/2010 09:43 AM: ... cant linux get it's sound sorted out properly? I see there was an update to pulseaudio on Linuxmint/Ubuntu today so that will be the end of all of your problems. He he. Rob

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-15 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:26 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 11:23 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote, On 06/16/2010 09:43 AM: ... cant linux get it's sound sorted out properly? I see there was an update to pulseaudio on Linuxmint/Ubuntu today so that