[orca-list] Installing ubuntu desktop- I Give Up! (fwd)

[Jude DaShiell]

Almost for sure, pulse auio has got a part in this mess.

> 	This is all very interesting. We have two video monitors in our 
> house with VGA connectors. One was easy to get to but very old. The 
> other is about ten years old and much more advanced. It turns out that 
> it is capable of syncing to multiple frame rates and it performs 
> flawlessly on the computer in question.
> 
> 	It turns out that there is a perfect desktop that
> appears every time in both Vinux3.1 and the ubuntu live CD but
> both run totally silently which is kind of a bad thing, as sound
> is everything, here.
> 
> 	I did try something kind of similar to what is discussed
> below in that I brought up the ubuntu9 version of orca that does
> talk and made a shell script using terminal to set the amixer
> controls that appear to be on and working and would contribute
> to hearing sound.
> 
> 	The script is:
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> amixer sset 'Master',0 100%,100% on,on
> amixer sset 'PCM',0 85%,85% on,on
> amixer sset 'Center',0 100%,100% on,on
> 	
> 	With my wife watching, I booted vinux3.1, typed
> Control-Alt-t to start the terminal and then performed sudo su -
> to be root.
> 
> 	All that worked as expected so I plugged in the thumb
> drive that I had saved that script to, mounted it on /mnt and
> then typed:
> 
> sh /mnt/setmixer (the name of the file with those commands)
> 
> 	The commands were accepted. When run on the working
> sound system in ubuntu9, they turned up the volume a bit because
> I set some sliders to 100%
> 
> 	With the vinux3.1 CD, the commands mimed as if they had
> worked, but no sound resulted.
> 
> 	This is certainly not a vinux problem because the
> ubuntu10.10 live CD mimics the same behavior as near as I can
> tell. We get a perfect desktop. The language selection and
> calling of orca works on screen just like the instructions for
> starting it say, but no sound ever pours forth.
> 
> 	I bet both will talk if I can monkey-wrench that sound
> card to actually be on and producing signals.
> 
> 	There is only one sound card on the system and that is
> the on-board chip set that Dell uses.
> 
> 	The hardware discovery process for sound has always been
> problematic through the years and here, it seems to prove that
> quote attributed to Mark Twain. "It's not what we don't know
> that hurts us, but what we know that just ain't so."
> 
> Jude DaShiell writes:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 05:13:15
> > From: Albert Sten-Clanton <albert.e.sten_clanton at verizon.net>
> > To: 'Jude DaShiell' <jdashiel at shellworld.net>, orca-list at gnome.org
> > Subject: RE: [orca-list] Installing ubuntu desktop-  I Give Up! (fwd)
> > 
> > Greetings!
> > 
> > The problems in the message you forwarded sound a good deal like ones I 
> > had.
> > I don't know what might work with a Ubuntu live CD, which I'd like to so I
> > could play with the Unity desktop.  I did get Vinux 3.1 to work, though,
> > thanks to the Vinux quickstart guide:
> 
>