sound problems after update to Hoary

[Eamonn Sullivan]

I just filed a bugzilla on this because it seems to affect a lot of people: 

http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7565

Basically, go to /etc/esound/ and change the auto_spawn parameter in
esd.conf from 0 to 1.

-Eamonn



On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:27:01 +0100, Pere Quintana
<pere.quintana at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Two days ago I upgraded my Warty to Hoary. I am using a IBM ThinkPad
> R51 and everything worked well under warty. With Hoary I have some
> little  problems with sound that I think are related.
> 
> 1. I can listen to ogg and mp3 files with no problem. Problems arise
> when using, vlc to watch videos, I can see images but I cannot hear
> anything.
> 
> 2. Under warty I used warty with no problems. Now when I try to call
> or people call me it just doesnt work. The programm does not crash but
> when I receive a call I cannot take the call.
> 
> 3. Mplayer does not work properly (I cannot even see images)
> 
> 4. Whe I start Audacity it displays the following message:
> 
> "There was an error initializing the audio i/o layer. You will not be
> able to play or record audio.
> 
> Error: Host error."
> 
> I hope all these are different faces of a simple problem.
> 
> Thanks for your help and for making ubuntu such a useful distribution
> 
> Pere Quintana
> 
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