Intrepid Sound Problems

[Karl Larsen]

David Fox wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>    I tried the w32codecs which was worthless, turned of PulseAudio
>> worthless, and began to wonder what is going on.
>>     
>
> For some reason, w32codecs was not installed in Intrepid, and
> apt-cache policy w32codecs returns (none) for an installation
> candidate, so that means to me that it can't be installed, and I
> believe I have all the restricted / medibuntu repositories for
> intrepid enabled, and I remember having it installed (as far as I can
> remember, that is) when I first installed Hardy earlier this year.
>
> Pulseaudio is not enabled and nothing connects to it here, and that
> might be a gnome thing, and as far as I can tell, I don't need it.
>
> I mostly listen to radio station content and my own collection of mp3s
> and oggs, and haven't found something that can't be played. And, I
> have sound in youtube and other video sites (cnn etc) and get sound
> with vlc and mplayerplugin and so forth.
>
> The only sound related issue I had was with amarok-neon which is in
> beta test - as soon as I did the intrepid dist-upgrade, it acted like
> it could play the stuff but no sound came out through the speakers.
> But that is a known bug, and was recently resolved a day or so ago.
>
>   
    I would sure like to know the solution. I have tried several and had 
zero success. So how do I learn of this solution.

Karl

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>> Karl
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