[ubuntu-in] Sound problems in maverick meerkat

[Neha Jain]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Nitesh Mistry <mailbox at mistrynitesh.net>wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 04:00:48PM +0530, Neha Jain wrote:
> > Well, everything was working fine once I had installed it, but then after
> > the broadcom sta driver started woking, I copied the stuff from my ext.
> HD
> > back to the lappy by
> > $ cp -R /media/Elements/home/njain /home
>
> Are you sure that the command worked? Ideally it should have failed as
> copying anything to a directory outside *your* home directory (eg.
> '/home/njain') requires 'sudo'. So either your command should have been:
>
> $ cp -R /media/Elements/home/njain /home/<your-user-id>
>
> or
>
> $ sudo cp -R /media/Elements/home/njain /home
>
> Hey yes it was issued as a sudo.. sorry, missed that. but ye there were no
errors copy happened neatly!


> or you have set world write permission to your root or /home directory
> which is highly undesirable.
>
> In any case, I don't think that command should have caused the sound
> problem.
>
> Do you remember any error or warning messages being displayed on terminal
> when you gave that command?
>
>
> > The error I saw in rhythmbox is configured audiosink bin1 not found,
> IIRC.
>
> Try running rhythmbox from the terminal, like:
> $ rhythmbox
>
yeah will do that, once i am at home.

>
> and post the output. It might help finding the real cause of this problem.
> Also try googling the error line that you find in the output.
>
>
> I tried googling that error..not much help, though
Also, could you tell me the folder that manages the sound and is present in
/home as hidden, may be that caused the problem..

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