Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 297, Issue 1

2009-08-28 Thread Peter
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Re: [Dorset] Dorchester Pub Meet.

2009-08-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi pwl, I will be there - look out for me I will have my brown laptop case and will carry an O'Reilly Python book. I will probably grab something to eat and be on the back veranda until close to 20:00 I'll almost definitely be there too. Here's some pictures.

[Dorset] No sound in Web Pages and Games. Alerts, music video playback OK.

2009-08-28 Thread Terry Coles
Since yesterday evening, I've had no sound when browsing the web, (Firefox or Konquerer) or when playing games. Playback of music and videos seems to work OK though when I use Amarok or Dragon Player. I'm assuming this was a broken update, but what? Anyone got any ideas where to start

Re: [Dorset] No sound in Web Pages and Games. Alerts, music video playback OK.

2009-08-28 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 28 Aug 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Terry, I'm assuming this was a broken update, but what? Anyone got any ideas where to start looking? If it's a package update, try /var/log/apt to see what's been changed since it went wrong. Hmmm. I can't see anything sound related since

Re: [Dorset] No sound in Web Pages and Games. Alerts, music video playback OK.

2009-08-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, Hmmm. I can't see anything sound related since Saturday night, when PulseAudio was updated. http://www.hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/Console.txt suggests it wasn't updated, but selected when it had been previously deselected. IOW, chosen to be installed, e.g. Selecting previously

Re: [Dorset] No sound in Web Pages and Games. Alerts, music video playback OK.

2009-08-28 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 28 Aug 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote: http://www.hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/Console.txt suggests it wasn't updated, but selected when it had been previously deselected. IOW, chosen to be installed, e.g. Selecting previously deselected package gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio. I've never

Re: [Dorset] No sound in Web Pages and Games. Alerts, music video playback OK.

2009-08-28 Thread Simon O'Riordan
Which browser do you use? There may be a menu setting for sound servers. Terry Coles wrote: On Friday 28 Aug 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Sorry, don't know. I guess you've tried switching the `preferred' to Alsa? Yes. In fact that is the default. If so, then what is likely

Re: [Dorset] No sound in Web Pages and Games. Alerts, music video playback OK.

2009-08-28 Thread Sean Gibbins
Terry Coles wrote: Well OK. I can live without sound on the games, but it's surprising how often sound gets used on web pages. My Ubuntu 9.04 system is set to 'Autodetect' which seems to work nicely here, where I disabled onboard sound in favour of my Aureon sound card - I also have

Re: [Dorset] No sound in Web Pages and Games. Alerts, music video playback OK.

2009-08-28 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 28 Aug 2009, Sean Gibbins wrote: My Ubuntu 9.04 system is set to 'Autodetect' which seems to work nicely here, where I disabled onboard sound in favour of my Aureon sound card - I also have numerous OSS, Alsa, PulseAudio and specific sound card options available to me as well at this