[ubuntu-studio-users] Fwd: no sound at all after switch to ubuntustudio

Thu Dec 26 22:55:53 UTC 2013

dear Mike,

thank you for your reply!

obviously i was no clear enough in stating, that i have been using jack 
for years together with pulse tied to it. And it went fine for years.
And i cannot do without, as e. g. audacity by far does not do the job 
for me, and i am a happy user of e. g. ardour 3 for quite a while yet.

So please believe that what i was trying to describe is something i am 
experienced in. As you hint to as well, i cannot understand why the 
thing is broken now suddenly.
Obviously i am left clueless by something which reasonably *should* 
work. So please help me by hinting to configuration files or the like, 
where something might be needed to be changed.

Which is why i told about the strangeness observed within alsamixer output.

Any ideas somebody?

Yours, Arno

Am 26.12.2013 20:57, schrieb Mike Holstein:
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> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Arno Waschk <hamamatsu at gmx.de 
> <mailto:hamamatsu at gmx.de>> wrote:
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>     -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>     Betreff: 	no sound at all after switch to ubuntustudio
>     Datum: 	Thu, 26 Dec 2013 17:19:42 +0100
>     Von: 	Arno Waschk <hamamatsu at gmx.de> <mailto:hamamatsu at gmx.de>
>     Antwort an: 	arno at arnowaschk.de <mailto:arno at arnowaschk.de>
>     An: 	mailto:ubuntu-studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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>     dear list,
>
>     can you please help me? I can hear no sound on my machine.
>
>     I had previously "normal" Ubuntu installed, and everything worked.
>     Now i have installed ubuntustudio from synaptic along with lots of audio
>     applications.
>     Since i rebooted and logged in into ubuntustudio, i can hear no sound.
>
>     No matter whether i want to play from normal applications like chrome,
>     or specialist applications like ardour3, nothing.
>
>     There is the pulseaudio-jack module installed.
>
>     When i am playing e. g. something via mplayer -ao pulse, i can see that
>     the volume indicator shown in pulseaudio's volume control application
>     does move as it should in both the application’s tab showing mplayer is
>     "sending" and the device tab, showing the pulseaudio-jack sink's volume
>     moving.
>
>     In qjackctl the pulseaudio sink is wired to the system as it should too.
>
>     i am running on a fujitsu s792 lifebook.
>     jack is connecting (alsa) to hw(0,0), which is named ALC269VB Analog
>     under the (only) HDA Intel device which is what i have on the mainboard
>     of my notebook.
>
>     I cannot play either via mplayer -ao alsa, or -ao jack, or -ao oss. All
>     other applications i could find failed to play either.
>     Mplayer does not throw an error message or other hint that something
>     might go wrong.
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>     When booting into windows, everything is fine, so the hardware does work.
>
>     Do you have any idea what might go wrong, or where i would need to
>     investigate the case?
>
>     The only "suspicious" thing i can find is that when launching alsamixer,
>     it only shows one "master" track.
>     Pressing F6 shows a list with 2 devices, one "- (default)", the second
>     "0 HDA Intel PCH". So maybe somewhere is an empty thing defaulted? If i
>     switch alsamixer to the second entry, i see the usual dozen of "tracks",
>     although i did not find a possibility of unmuting or the like there to
>     change my situation.
>
>     Any ideas? I would be more than grateful for any hints!
>
>     Yours, Arno
>
>
> if you havent used JACK before, its probably just a matter of not 
> having any experience with the tools. if you are not planning on using 
> JACK, i would just go back to xubuntu, but, basically, they are all 
> ubuntu. ubuntustudio *is* ubuntu, so if you are using the same kernel 
> (which you likely are, even if you installed the lowlatency one, if 
> you didnt do anything to select and boot it). the main difference is 
> likely this simple... you are clicking on applications (such as 
> ardour) that try and start JACK. JACK gets started, and basically 
> takes over your audio (as it is supposed to do).. you then have no way 
> of going back to using the system normally with pulse, since you have 
> just started using JACK, and are likely not configuring it properly 
> (if at all)...
>
> i would first relax, and ask yourself if you are in need of JACK. if 
> the answer is "no", then, dont use it. if you want to casually edit 
> some audio files, you can do that with audacity from inside *any* 
> major operating system, such as stock xubuntu without adding the 
> ubuntustudio packages. if you need JACK then, you would want to start 
> from a fresh boot, and open "qjackctl" and start configuring that GUI 
> tool to start JACK. you would select your audio device and click 
> "start" and troubleshoot any errors that come up for you in the window 
> there.
>
> refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/ProAudioIntro
>
> cheers!
>
>
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Sie wie man Töne reinigt?* (Repertoire) Jürgen Flimm 
Neuhardenberg/Leipzig u. a. *Lesungen mit Klaus Maria Brandauer* *Via 
intolleranza II* Christoph Schlingensief Wien Burgtheater *Mea Culpa* 
(Repertoire) Christoph Schlingensief Berlin Staatsoper im 
Schillertheater Maxwell Davies & Sciarrino: *Miss Donnithorne's Maggot 
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