@Dan, How do you expect me not to be offended by your tone when you tell me "Instead of bemoaning -- incorrectly, I might add -- " ?
You missed the boat on this one, what I know is that sound quality is bad on every single computer I have installed ubuntu on since ubuntu started using PulseAudio. Maybe PA is not the problem, but I reported bad audio output, all I know is that a big deal was made out of ubuntu switching to PA with a claim of better audio output, all I got was very bad audio when the switch was made. So I assume that PA is involved somehow. You asked me how I know my hardware is not bad......geezzz, do I have to prove this for well over 25 computers ? I'm not ignorant Dan, I'm just not a linux expert. I know that the sound quality is fine when windows is installed on these computers, I know that PRE-PulseAudio ubuntu sound output is just fine also. If you would notice the heading I wrote this problem about, I said : "extremely bad audio playback on ALL computers since making pulseaudio default", that is pointing out a timeline Dan, that is the best hint I could give about what the problem is, it does not say PA is broken, its says that when ubuntu switched, that is when the problems started. I gave a real big hint of when this problem started happening for a place to start looking. Its unreasonable to ask me to go out and buy new audio hardware to replace something that sounds great on other OS's. "Uh, how precisely are you determining that? "It works fine with another version of Ubuntu" doesn't cut it. I can point out errors in the drivers that made it *appear* to work fine." You may not see that statement as offensive, but I sure do, Maybe there are errors in the driver, that would mean that the windows versions have the same "errors in the drivers that made it *appear* to work fine" also. I don't know what you want me to do Dan, I have PCI sound cards installed in some of the computers, in some of them there is built in sound, some have soundblaster, some have AC97, some have soundmax. and yet you seriously expect me to assume that all the vendors drivers are broken for the various sound cards. How am I expected to react to that assertion ? They are able to produce good quality sound, what you are saying is just not likely nor is it reasonable think that way. You want amixer output for the specific computer I am reporting this issue on, but how does that take the next computer that has an add in PCI sound card into account ? or the next one or the next one ? I have different computers with DIFFERENT sound configurations on them that are being complained about. There HAS to be a common denominator here Dan, it is just not likely that the hardware is broken on all the various different computers I have installed ubuntu on, 32 bit or 64 bit, it does not make a difference. So, you want amixer output, tell me how ? and tell me how the amixer output from THIS computer is going to help you resolve the bad sound quality on the next computer that has different sound hardware ? (Your logic eludes me on this, your logic makes no sense to me what-so-ever) How do I get an amixer output to report ? and how do I kill autospawn ? I'm more interested to get this bad sound quality fixed than fight about it, but I just do not see how profiling one computer is going to resolve the issue for the next computer that already has the same problem with different hardware. -- extremely bad audio playback on ALL computers since making pulseaudio default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569814 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
