Re: [Bug 1060452] Re: alsamixer fails to load on quantal ppc

2012-10-04 Thread 2blue
I have idea at this point. I am still reading up on it, and trying to find someone who has worked with parallel issues in the past. What has changed from 12.04 to 12.10? Can we track something down that way? On 10/05/2012 02:17 AM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > ok, wait, i take it back. i gave th

[Bug 1060452] Re: alsamixer fails to load on quantal ppc

2012-10-04 Thread Walter Lapchynski
ok, wait, i take it back. i gave the livecd a shot on the radeon- equipped ppc machine i'm borrowing (http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/specs/powerbook_g4_1.33_15.html) and we had sound right out of the box. alsamixer works, aplay -l provides a sensible result, there's a volume ico

[Bug 1060452] Re: alsamixer fails to load on quantal ppc

2012-10-04 Thread Walter Lapchynski
no luck having sound with the latest liveCD so i'm wondering if this really isn't a more low-level problem. i tried grepping dmesg and no luck. i do get something out of syslog: $ cat /var/log/syslog |grep -ie audio -ie sound Oct 4 14:31:57 amorphous pbbuttonsd: INFO: Soundsystem requested: ALSA

[Bug 1060452] Re: alsamixer fails to load on quantal ppc

2012-10-04 Thread Unit 193
On a i386, `alsamixer` works fine but `alsamixer -a basic` fails with error: ALSA lib simple_abst.c:131:(try_open_full) Unable to open library '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/smixer/smixer-python.so' cannot open mixer: No such device or address -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 1060452] Re: alsamixer fails to load on quantal ppc

2012-10-04 Thread Walter Lapchynski
same here, different ppc. the relevant error, even without the -a switch is: cannot open mixer: No such file or directory i tried to use the "debugging" option of -a and initially got an error trying to find /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/smixer/smixer- python.so so i installed libasound2-py

[Bug 1060452] Re: alsamixer fails to load on quantal ppc

2012-10-04 Thread Walter Lapchynski
** Summary changed: - no alsamixer, quantal, powerpc + alsamixer fails to load on quantal ppc -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1060452 Title: alsamixer fails to load on quantal ppc To