sound

[John Dangler]

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:48 +0200, Johan Ramm-Ericson wrote:
> 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>
> > Message-ID: <1161719171.6402.272.camel at localhost>
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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>
> > > > Message-ID: <1161710374.6402.269.camel at localhost>
> > > > Content-Type: text/plain
> > > > 
> > > > 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...
Is there any way under Ubuntu to configure alsa (or re-install it)
without totem?  I've installed and configured alsa as a separate
component under other distro's (gentoo comes to mind).
> 
> /johan r-e
>