off and on sound problem

[Douglas Pollard]

On 12/13/2010 09:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 21:40 -0500, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>> On 12/13/2010 09:31 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 21:28 -0500, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>>>> On 12/13/2010 08:25 PM, Mike Holstein wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Douglas Pollard
>>>>> <dougpol1 at verizon.net>   wrote:
>>>>>           I am using Ubuntu studio 10.04.   I get sound for a while
>>>>>           after start up
>>>>>           but then loose it. I typed pavucontrol into the terminal.
>>>>>           The volume
>>>>>           control panel comes up and I get an error message
>>>>>           ( connection failed:
>>>>>           connection terminated).  The little speaker thingies in the
>>>>>           Volume
>>>>>           control are showing and X as if muted. If I restart I have
>>>>>           sound for a
>>>>>           while but then loose it.  If I play VLC media player sound
>>>>>           stops and
>>>>>           starts and beaks up and after a while it shuts down
>>>>>           altogether. I would
>>>>>           appreciate any help with this.  Thanks  Doug
>>>>>
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>>>>> let us know what hardware your using... are you using JACK? is this
>>>>> an internal card? or a USB device?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> you can run
>>>>> lspci
>>>>> in a terminal and paste that here, or
>>>>> lsusb
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> i have a VIA sound device that just dies sometimes... what kernel
>>>>> are you using?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> uname -a
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> have you tried other kernels?
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> MH
>>>>> http://www.myspace.com/mikeholstein
>>>>>
>>>>> http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/
>>>>>
>>>> I have an AMD 64 dual chip motherboard that I installed about 3 years
>>>> ago . The computer is an HPpavilian 720
>>>>      I am trying to think how to see what kernal is in here. I
>>>> downloaded Ubuntu Studio 10.04 and installed it. I see if I can figure
>>>> out what the kernel is.    Doug
>>> Open a terminal emulation and run
>>>
>>> uname -a
>>>
>>> ;)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> No I have not. I just installed Ubuntu Studio 10.04 about two months ago
>> but have not had consistent sound since then.      Doug
> On an Ubuntu forum on German, regarding to codec Via VT1708 someone
> solved this by installing
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/de/lucid/linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic
>
> To know what kernel you are running run
>
> uname -r
>
> or better
>
> uname -a
>
>
>

Here is the kernal output from the terminal     Doug

Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-27-preempt #49-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 2 03:21:34
UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux