if it were my box, i would remove/disable all but the RME for testing/troubleshooting.. i would want to here any known good audio file play... could be as simple as an alsa or kernel version not supplying support anymore, or a config issue... i feel the subject line, and your earlier assumption is not correct though "due to pulse"... i usually run aplay -l in the terminal to see if alsa is seeing the devices that pulse would be using... <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Ralf Mardorf <<a href="mailto:ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net" target="_blank">ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 10:05 -0400, Mike Holstein wrote: > if sound is not working in general in pulse, then id say you have a > general support issue.. you can go to the main #ubuntu support > channel, or the ubuntu mailing lists... could be flash related.. i > would try with a different browser... </div>I also tested Thunar and a mp3 file. It's very simple, PA only "sees" the 2 Envy24 cards, but I don't use those cards for audio, for me they are MIDI interfaces only. For audio I'll use the RME card. FWIW hdspmixer is ok: spinymouse@precise:~$ hdspmixer HDSPMixer 1.11 - Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Charbonnel <<a href="mailto:thomas@undata.org">thomas@undata.org</a>> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY HDSPMixer is free software, see the file COPYING for details Looking for RME cards: Card 0: RME AIO S/N 0x579bcc at 0xfdbf0000, irq 18 RME AIO found! Card 1: TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbf00, irq 20 Card 2: TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbb00, irq 21 Card 3: KORG INC. nanoKONTROL at usb-0000:00:13.0-2, full speed 1 RME cards card found. Restoring last presets used <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf > <<a href="mailto:ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net">ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net</a>> wrote: > On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 09:40 -0400, Mike Holstein wrote: > > if "pulseaudio crap" is your opinion, then remove pulse > audio... would > > you like a link to a guide for that? > > > Right now I'm going to backup US Precise. After making the > backup I'll > disable or remove PA and I'll build a full preempt non-rt > kernel with > threadirqs as boot option. Such a kernel should enable that > rtirq does > what I expect to do it. I still wonder what to do, to get > access to the > 4GB RAM, instead of just 3.8GB, since arch is 64-bit. > If you've got a link at hand, than yes, please send me the > link. > > > i dont plan on using the pulse to jack bridge myself... > would that > > work in your workflow Ralph? do you need pulse and JACK > > simultaneously? > > > I absolutely don't need PA. > > > would you like suggestions on how to use JACK without pulse > in 12.04? > > > Yes :)! > > > does sound work in the browser with JACK not running? > > > No, there's no audio output. > > Regards, > Ralf > > PS: Desktop usage (mails, browser etc. is fast and without > issues). I > only had o change one color for Xfce terminal. I changed > palette entry > 13 from #5555FF to #AFAFE3, because when I run > spinymouse@precise:~$ ls -l .local/share/evolution > lrwxrwxrwx 1 spinymouse spinymouse 58 Apr 28 15:13 mail > -> /mnt/archlinux/home/spinymouse/.local/share/evolution/mail > the link color was unreadable on the black background. > > > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel</a> > > > > > > -- > MH > > <a href="http://mikeholstein.info" target="_blank">mikeholstein.info</a> > > > -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> <div> </div>-- MH<div> <a href="http://www.mikeholstein.info/" target="_blank">mikeholstein.info</a></div><div> </div>