Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-11 Thread David King
Well, I lost the sound again. I tried closing various programs that were open, Firefox, Flock, Sunbird, Azureus, Thunderbird, but none of them made any difference. I even closed pulseaudio via the System Monitor. When trying to restart pulseaudio I get the following: $ pulseaudio W: pid.c:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Chris Coulson
2009/1/7 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net I suspect Firefox may be your issue. I sometimes find that if I've done anything involving sound in Firefox then no other applications will get access to the sound. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Sean Miller
I suspect Firefox may be your issue. I sometimes find that if I've done anything involving sound in Firefox then no other applications will get access to the sound. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Sutton
David King wrote: I keep losing the sound on my Ubuntu 8.04.1 (64-bit) installation. I can play video and audio files okay, but then a bit later I cannot get any sound at all. The only clue is that if I try to open a video file in Xine, it says that the audio is device is unavailable as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Bruce Durling
I'd just like to me too on this. I'm running a Dell Inspiron 1420 that came with Ubuntu and I'm running 32bit 8.10 now. Things seem better but still flaky. I should get to the bottom of it one day really. I have a desktop that runs Mythbuntu 8.10 and that doens't seem to have much in the way of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Sean Miller
Can somebody post instructions on setting up Alsa, as I suspect the sound problems are the reason for memory leaks I'm getting in Pidgin and Firefox. Is it just a case of installing it from apt-get or are there other things we have to do? Thanks, Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Sutton
Bruce Durling wrote: I'd just like to me too on this. I'm running a Dell Inspiron 1420 that came with Ubuntu and I'm running 32bit 8.10 now. Things seem better but still flaky. I should get to the bottom of it one day really. I have a desktop that runs Mythbuntu 8.10 and that doens't seem

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Oliver Marks
Not sure if this will help, but flash player uses alsa by default, but if you install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound it will try and output thought esound or oss, which might help but you would have to try, it falls back to also if it fails anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Bruce Durling
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Oliver Marks oliver.ma...@homedics.co.uk wrote: Not sure if this will help, but flash player uses alsa by default, but if you install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound it will try and output thought esound or oss, which might help but you would have to try, it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 7 Jan, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: I suspect Firefox may be your issue. I sometimes find that if I've done anything involving sound in Firefox then no other applications will get access to the sound. My 8,10 Ubuntu tells me, after login, that 'Sound will be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread David King
You may well be right. I downloaded Flashplayer 10, however, it was not properly installed because version 9 was still installed via Synaptic, so I uninstalled 9 and then Firefox was using 10.0.21. So far the sound is okay. David Chris Coulson wrote: 2009/1/7 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net

[ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-06 Thread David King
I keep losing the sound on my Ubuntu 8.04.1 (64-bit) installation. I can play video and audio files okay, but then a bit later I cannot get any sound at all. The only clue is that if I try to open a video file in Xine, it says that the audio is device is unavailable as another program is