hardy sound

[Andrew Mathenge]

I had the same problem with the settings at "Autodetect" and
"PulseAudio." I changed all the settings to ALSA and it worked.

It seems strange that your test sounds would work, but your
applications wouldn't have sound. Almost seems as though the volume
was turned low. There is a utility that you can run in the console --
alsamixer -- to make changes to the sound output. You can try it out
in Gutsy (7.10) and see if that makes a difference. You can try the
live CD for Hardy (8.04) and give alsamixer a try there.

Having said that, you're probably better off with Gutsy if it's
working for you. I had a nightmare of an upgrade and eventually had to
do a clean install.  However, in my case, wireless networking was a
huge problem for my particular card in 7.10. It works in 8.04 and is
stable.

Andrew.

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:49 AM, George Borusiewich
<v.g.borus at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Although I have been dual-booting linux since Ubuntu 6.06, I still
> consider myself a "newbie" because I haven't bothered to dig deeper
> into  linux as an operating system. Right from my first install of
> Ubuntu 6.06, my computer has worked flawlessly (and without any
> corrections, modifications, tweaking, etc.). I installed Hardy 8.04 and
> my soundcard stopped working (no sound). The only sound that I do get is
> the drumroll when the log-in window opens. I logged onto 2 forums on
> Hardy sound, and they both suggested that Hardy's default usage of
> "PulseAudio" (instead of the previous default usage of ALSA) was the
> problem. I changed the default in my Hardy installation to ALSA. The
> several test signals now sounded a tone (which they did not do under
> PulseAudio), but still no sound. I re-installed Ubuntu 7.10, and
> glorious sound came out of my speakers! Do I now wait for Ubuntu 8.10 to
> fix the problem?  George Borusiewich
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