OK, what's the trick? (Ubuntu and Multimedia revisited.)

[Michael T. Richter]

On Thu, 2006-26-01 at 07:26 +0200, Billy Verreynne (JW) wrote:
> > But I don't get sound at all.  No sounds of any kind.

> Michael, I don't think that two sound cards can easily work
> side-by-side due to hardware resources. There are only so many IRQs
> and DMA channels available. 

One is the built-in sound card in my laptop.  The other is a Sound
Blaster MP3+ USB sound card.  IRQs and DMA channels aren't part of the
picture for the latter.

> I for example never could get my existing
> home WinXP system to work with two sound cards because of hardware
> conflicts. (but then  I also have other h/w in that box)

As was pointed out in earlier threads you (probably thankfully) missed,
the hardware setup I have works perfectly under Windows XP -- the sound
cards coexisted peacefully and sound worked reliably to only the card I
specified as the default.

This is a new problem.  After trying to make Ubuntu work with the same
setup I had under Windows XP, I have given up.  I don't think it can.
So I took off the Sound Blaster MP3+ external sound card and decided to
fall back to the crappy sound card built into my laptop.  There is now
only the built-in.  The catch now is that it has stopped working at all.
Console beeps, oddly enough, work.  I've set GAIM to use those, for
example, and vi, bash, etc. who often communicate with console beeps all
communicate successfully using them.  But nothing else works involving
sound.  Not the drum sound when the login screen comes up to the
shutdown sound when I reboot in my nth attempt to make this sucker
work.  

I've been poring over the (obscenely large number of!) web sites that
purport to solve all Linux sound problems to no avail.  Anders, too, has
been helping me behind the scenes in private email.  The problem is that
nothing shows that there's a problem.  All the files contain what they
should.  All the pseudofiles report what they should.  All the mixers
act in the way you'd expect them to.  There's just no sound.  (Anders'
latest suspicion is something to do with file permissions.  I'm waiting
for him to come around to my time zone again for the next battery of
tests.  The man is very patient and methodical.)

For the current status, though, as the old joke goes: "The operation was
a success.  The patient died."

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