Sound System Failure - Or Deaf Old Man...

Joseph ubuntu at e-pops.org
Thu Aug 27 11:50:31 UTC 2009


Larry Shields wrote:
> Joseph wrote:
>   
>> I'm using Ubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope...   or Crusty 
>> Cockroach....   :)
>>
>> I loaded the 8.04 and it suggested the new 9.04....    so I did.  I 
>> noticed that it does sounds for KNetWalk and a couple of other things, 
>> but when I play a YouTube video, it does nothing.  I had to load a 
>> program (I forget which one), so the videos would play...   I now can 
>> play the video, but there's still no sound, except for what sounds like 
>> a waterfall....
>>
>> I'd run sudo pulseaudio --system and got this:
>>
>> jlsnurr at jlsnurr-den:~$ sudo pulseaudio --system
>> W: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-exit not set!
>> W: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-module-loading not set!
>> N: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling SHM mode!
>> N: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling exit idle time!
>> E: pid.c: Daemon already running.
>> E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
>>
>>
>> How can I get my audio system working?
>>
>>   
>>     
> *Check your settings use "alsamixer", then use the right arrow to move 
> to each setting, the up arrow moves the setting from off to as high as 
> it will go...
>
> See if this helps... ;-)
>
> Larry
> *
>   

Larry, I checked that, and everything is wide open...   should be full 
volume....    but nothing.

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Joseph Snurr
Cotter, AR.

"Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten." - Heard in Arkansas
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