Sound System Failure - Or Deaf Old Man...

[Karl F. Larsen]

Joseph wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>>>>> I'm using Ubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope...   or Crusty 
>>>>>> Cockroach....   :)
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>>>>>> 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....
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>>>>>> I'd run sudo pulseaudio --system and got this:
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>> How can I get my audio system working?
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>>>>> *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...
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>>>>> See if this helps... ;-)
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>>>>> Larry
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>>>> Larry, I checked that, and everything is wide open...   should be full 
>>>> volume....    but nothing.
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>>> *Ok Joseph, that's all that I had to do when I had no audio...
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>>> Sorry, but I do not have any other ideas, except use google to see if 
>>> anyone else has solved the problem...
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>>> Have a nice day...
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>>> Larry
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>>     I would like to know if you upgraded your 8.04 or did you put your 
>> 9.04 in a new partition?
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>> 73 Karl
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> I upgraded, Karl.  No new partition.
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    I think your problem is due to some of the 8.04 software is still 
working and it doesn't do well on a 9.04 system.

    If you have room on your hard drive, try putting 9.04 into a new 
partition. I think then after updates Everything will work like 9.04 
does for me and many others :-)

73 Karl