Feisty problems
Wulfy
wulfmann at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Jul 2 22:36:49 UTC 2007
Wulfy wrote:
> I recently upgraded my Edgy box to Feisty (i386) and everything seemed
> to work OK. Apart from sound.
>
> I found that while I could play video files (and DVDs) other sounds just
> didn't happen. I changed to oss from alsa and everything then worked
> for a time.
>
> I then hit problems with Kaffeine - it just started saying it couldn't
> open certain files - avi and ogg were the ones I tried. So I moved to
> mplayer to play my videos.
>
> I had the bright idea of trying again with alsa... no sound. Then I
> saw "threaded open sound system" as an option... woohoo! I could have
> my sound and get multiple sound sources working again! Or so I thought.
>
> When I hit "apply" the sound system restarted.. again and again and
> again. I restarted X, thinking that might fix the problem. No change.
>
> I'm at a loss as to how to get my sound back. Can anyone help?
>
> AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ running the 32-bit version of Feisty
> Fawn Kubuntu upgraded from Edgy.
>
> High Definition Audio/AC'97 Host Controller
>
> Linux localhost 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007
> i686 GNU/Linux
>
> If you need any more data, just ask.
>
>
Strange. I just tried mplayer again and now the sound is working...
yet in KControl, the sound system is off!
I'm totally confused.... :@(
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