I bought a refurbished Dell Optiplex G280 last summer and installed Ubuntu 8.04 and then ran a script that added all the apps to make this into Ubuntu Studio.
Being new to Linux, I had my hands full learning how to deal with all kinds of things, and I deferred dealing with the problem of not being able to hear audio when I wanted to edit in Audacity (a program I used lightly on the PC). I installed and used Gizmo and Skype voip services with no problems. Not really paying much attention, I upgraded to 8.10 in December and, as you can imagine, it blew things up for me. When I launch Gizmo, I get a login error advising me that "No audio input/output devices are currently available." With Skype, the message says that "there is a problem with audio playback." I've acquired a little knowledge now about what's going on between Ubuntu Studio and Ubuntu and that enabled me to get Audacity working properly finally (and since all I'm doing is taking language instruction tapes and breaking them up into shorter pieces, I'm quite content with it), and I experimented with Jack Control. The mic works, the earphones work, but I'm clueless as to why Gizmo and Skype are now unhappy with my setup. I decline to re-install Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu Studio, or 8.10 without Ubuntu Studio. That is too radical a solution simply to solve my minor audio needs. Can someone advise me what I need to do to make Gizmo and/or Skype aware of my headset and where I might learn about the subject that's caused this problem for me? Thanks, Roger Sperberg PS: The upgrade to 8.10 also did something with my networking but I don't know what. The Network Manager applet now indicates that my "network is unmanaged", although I can access other computers at home as well as the internet. I mention this in the off-chance that the problems are related. -- Roger Sperberg -- rsperberg at gmail.com Nokia N800 & N810 tablets -- internettablettalk.com Beginning Cambodian Reader -- cambodian-reader.tiddlyspot.com Modern Spoken Cambodian -- spokencambodian.110mb.com Click SEAlang add-on for Firefox -- sealang.net/download/
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