[Lubuntu] No pulseaudio explains no local sound on LTSP clients?

Tue Oct 2 16:09:36 UTC 2012

Thanks, that's a good starting point.

On 10/2/2012 12:05 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> John:
>
> If I could have remembered anything of how do do it, I would have 
> passed it on.
>
> It seems I saw something in an Ubuntu forum about configuring 
> Pulseaudio on Lubuntu.
>
> I did a Google search just now for "pulseaudio lubuntu", which came up 
> with interesting stuff, but not what I remembered using.
>
> I did see this one piece of information that seemed familiar:
>
>
> *Re: No audio lubuntu 12.04*
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Be sure that pavucontrol, pulseaudio, pulseaudio-utils and libgtk-3-0 
> are all installed. Then play with the different settings in pulseaudio 
> volume control and the controls in your player until you get sound. 
> http://douwil7.100webspace.net/linux/Tuning.html#17
>
> That seems to be what I did, that finally got it working.
>
> I also had issues with having two soundcards on my machine, where 
> sometimes they would initialize in the wrong order, and I would get no 
> sound because it was using the soundcard with no amplifier/speakers 
> hooked to it.
>
> - Aere
>
> On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 11:44 -0400, John Hupp wrote:
>> So even though Pulseaudio is installed by default, apparently there 
>> are configuration questions viz-a-viz it's relationship with Alsa.
>>
>> Since Edubuntu's LTSP clients play local sound just fine, if you 
>> tossed me a few critical bones, I might be able to compare the 
>> Lubuntu vs. Edubuntu configurations and figure out what to change to 
>> get local sound working with Lubuntu LTSP.
>>
>> Of course, with LTSP, there might be the added question of whether I 
>> would need to change the LTSP chroot image -- but one step at a time!
>>
>> On 10/2/2012 11:30 AM, Aere Greenway wrote:
>>
>>> All:
>>>
>>> I use Pulseaudio in Lubuntu all the time, because I need to /test/ 
>>> with Java Sound (specifically, its software synthesizer), which on 
>>> Linux (at least in the Ubuntu variants), assumes Pulseaudio is 
>>> used.  It may be possible to make Java Sound use something else, but 
>>> I don't know how to do it.
>>>
>>> So I (with some effort) configured my Lubuntu systems to use 
>>> Pulseaudio.  Unfortunately, I don't remember the steps to do that, 
>>> but I believe I can figure it out again if it becomes necessary.
>>>
>>> - Aere
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 11:14 -0400, John Hupp wrote:
>>>> A couple more notes:
>>>>
>>>> I find that Pulseaudio is indeed installed on Lubuntu Precise, so 
>>>> perhaps the previous post's "We don't use pulseaudio" remark refers 
>>>> merely to non-usage by Skype, rather than to fundamental 
>>>> configuration in Lubuntu?
>>>>
>>>> In Edubuntu 12.04, local sound works fine on LTSP clients.  So Alsa 
>>>> and Pulseaudio are configured differently in Edubuntu/Ubuntu than 
>>>> in Lubuntu?
>>>>
>>>> On 9/29/2012 6:36 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm forking a previous post to a related yet distinct topic.
>>>>>
>>>>> I hadn't posted anything on the topic yet since I have not tested 
>>>>> my observation more widely, but I seem to find that LTSP clients 
>>>>> connected to a Lubuntu LTSP server do not have local sound.  They 
>>>>> output to the server's speakers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Vaguely I recall that LTSP relies on pulseaudio, so your statement 
>>>>> below could explain the behavior.
>>>>>
>>>>> If this assessment is correct, anyone know of a relatively easy 
>>>>> way to get local sound working with LTSP on Lubuntu?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9/29/2012 6:14 PM, leszek.lesner at web.de 
>>>>> <mailto:leszek.lesner at web.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> We don't use pulseaudio so pavucontrol makes no sense. Skype only 
>>>>>> used with alsa reveals the alsa devices in skypes configuration 
>>>>>> for audio devices. This works usually fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendet
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 紳癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna) schrieb am 29.09.12 23:54:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Today I had to use Skype, and I noticed that there's no way to 
>>>>>> change the microphone volume. There's no GUI for doing that. So I 
>>>>>> googled and, at the Ubuntu forums recommended to use pavucontrol 
>>>>>> as a unique pulse audio controller.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Shouldn't we include this app in the distro? I mean, maybe more 
>>>>>> people need to control more device's levels and they have no 
>>>>>> choice. Or maybe I'm wrong and I'm not using the right tool.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 紳癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna)
>>>>>> Lubuntu Artwork Team
>>>>>>
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>>> Sincerely,
>>> Aere
>>>
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> Sincerely,
> Aere
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