sound

[Johan Ramm-Ericson]

On Tue, 2006-10-24 John Dangler wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:46:11 -0400
> From: John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net>
> Subject: Re: sound
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,	not for general discussions"
> 	<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 20:59 +0200, Johan Ramm-Ericson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-24 John Dangler wrote:
> > 
> > > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:19:34 -0400
> > > From: John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net>
> > > Subject: sound
> > > To: Ubuntu User List <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> > > 
> > > can someone here tell me how to get my sound back?
> > > I'm running Dapper LTS 6.06 
> > > On two different machines, I've updated my kernel 2.6.15-27, removed
> > > totem, and added gxine
> > > 
> > > Now neither machine has any sound.
> > > 
> > > Sounds are enabled on the desktops, and the amixer settings show that
> > > the channels are enabled.
> > > 
> > > Any input is greatly appreciated.  I'm a little frustrated with this.
> > 
> > Without having done a thorough investigation I'd say that you'd do best
> > to reinstall totem. Once that is done I think you'll be back on track...
> That would lead me to conclude that Dapper _must_ have totem in order to
> have any sound. 

I _think_ so, yes, but I haven't looked up any docs to verify that.

> But, since sound worked prior to installing totem, that
> can't be the case.  Would it be possible to re-install alsa ?

Are you sure that totem was not installed by default? All my previous
Ubuntu installs have supplied totem if memory serves correctly...

By the way; I'm sure that removing totem took out alsa as well since:

apt-cache depends totem
totem
 |Depends: totem-gstreamer
  Depends: totem-xine

apt-cache depends totem-gstreamer | grep -i alsa
 |Depends: libesd-alsa0
 |Depends: gstreamer0.10-alsa
    gstreamer0.10-alsa

So, you may get away with just "sudo apt-get install totem-gstreamer"
but I wouldn't bet on it...

/johan r-e