off and on sound problem

[Douglas Pollard]

On 12/13/2010 09:59 PM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> 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
>
>
I just played some music with VLC and it played well for about 5 minuets 
and then i got th message that the connection failed.  that sounds like 
a hardware problem?      Doug