On 08/13/2013 11:46 AM, German G wrote:
Hello gentlemen,
Recently I bought new hardware for my new htpc system. A8 AMD APU and
a new FM2 gigabyte motherboard. I must say that everything was working
flowlessly on my am2 nvidea 7 year old motherboard. I mean the sound
was working with the same 13.04 Lubuntu. I booted up, and I didn't
hear not only sounds, but volume control in systray also. I must say
that I know that you have to click on the back panel "add/remove
items", and volume control is there, but just doesn't add up to sys
tray. My primarily music player Audacious indulge me with some weird
errors.. something
lime like pcm_snd_ can't find files. ( I definitely include all the
info I had if you be with me). The problem that it seems to me that
Lubuntu has a very small user base, so my questions regarding this on
web forums yield even almost no hits. Everyone ( well, younger users
at least want Unity and some sort of support). I want support too, but
with Lubuntu and LXDE. They seem perfectly for my needs. Needless to
say, after my seach for help on the web, which doesn't seen to have
any solution to my problem, I stumbled upon the info that all
distribution of Ubuntu family have ( Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu ) have
something called pulseaudio by default. I also gleaned that Lubuntu
doesn't have it and that some developer in WIKI promised to write how
to install pulseaudio in Lubuntu, but this is in progress. Just for
the hack of it, i booted up live Xubuntu distro and wow -- audio
works. So, it is not a problem of my new hardware. It seems that
something is broken in Lubuntu. I am not sure if that pulseaudio
problem or alsa, but the fact is I don't have sound in my lovely
Lubuntu with which I was from the first days. ( I was using Ubuntu
before they indroduced Unitiy and staff got sissy. So, if anyone is
willing to help, your opinions if I should tinker alsa, or install
pulseaudio ( which I have no clue how to do it, or else where do I
need to start is greatly appreciated). Thanks for your fellowship
time. Happy camper before it's all happend, German. ( st. Petersburg
Russia)
German:
I use sound with Lubuntu without the problems you experienced (levels
11.10 through 13.04).
One difference, is that where I need to use Java Sound MIDI, I need to
use PulseAudio, which I think is not installed on Lubuntu by default.
But to use PulseAudio, you also need the "pavucontrol" package to
control it. It isn't a dependency of pulseaudio because other
distributions have their own mixers to control it.
So on all of my Lubuntu systems, I install the "pulseaudio" and
"pavucontrol" packages before trying to use them.
I also have problems where I usually have multiple soundcards, and I
have found it best to (in the "Configuration" tab of Pulse Audio Volume
Control (pavucontrol)), to set the "Profile" drop-box to "Off" of the
soundcard my amplifier is not connected-to.
You have different hardware than I do, so the above may not solve your
problems, but it's worth trying, as a first step.
--
Sincerely,
Aere
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