[8.10] There is a problem with sound...

[Alexander Dong Back Kim]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alexander Dong Back Kim wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Alexander Dong Back Kim wrote:
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>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> Alexander Dong Back Kim wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear members,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems there is a problem (at least on my laptop) with a sound card.
>>>>>> Although aplay detects the sound card, even I increase the volume as
>>>>>> maximum, nothing I can here...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is a warning message in the syslog saying that
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *'libcanberra-login-sound.desktop' failed to register before timeout.*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have no idea what it means.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I feel like I'm a silence now =( please give my world back to me!!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Alex
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>  Alex do you have all the updates to 8.10 installed?
>>>>>
>>>>> Karl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>>      Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>>>>>      Linux User
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>>>> Dear Karl,
>>>>
>>>> Yes I do have all the updates of 8.10 I believe.
>>>>
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>  OK now try booting on not the latest kernel but the one before that. The
>>> newest kernel has some problems. Now check your sound. If still no sound
>>> click on the two speakers that are on the upper edge of the screen. It is
>>> a
>>> sound setting device.
>>>
>>>  Now right click the speakers and choose "Open Volume Control" and make
>>> sure all the controls are turned on and are turned up.
>>>
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>>       Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>>>       Linux User
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>> Dear Karl,
>>
>> First of all, thanks for your suggestion. However, sound still doesn't
>> work
>> even I booted with linux kernel 2.6.27-9 instead of 2.6.27-11. =(
>>
>> But this time I found something else that I didn't reported before. In the
>> syslog, I could see some more error messages.
>>
>> I could find the below line by searching "sound".
>> Mar 26 08:51:25 alexk x-session-manager[6589]: WARNING: Application
>> 'libcanberra-login-sound.desktop' failed to register before timeout
>>
>> I also coud find the below messages by searching "audio".
>>
>> Mar 26 08:51:07 alexk pulseaudio[6652]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find
>> original dlopen loader.
>> Mar 26 08:51:07 alexk pulseaudio[6654]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE,
>> (31,
>> 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
>> Mar 26 08:51:07 alexk pulseaudio[6654]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO,
>> (9,
>> 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
>>
>> Mar 26 08:51:25 alexk pulseaudio[6654]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session
>> manager not running.
>> Mar 26 08:51:25 alexk pulseaudio[6654]: module.c: Failed to load  module
>> "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
>>
>> It seems something is wrong with pulseaudio... any idea or suggestion for
>> this?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
>   Sorry Alex I have never seen those error messages on the 8 series of
> Ubuntu. Both of my computers have fine sound using pulse audio.
>
>
> Karl
>
>
> --
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>        Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>        Linux User
>        #450462   http://counter.li.org.
>  PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C  ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7
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Dear Karl,

Thanks for your help! At least, I could find it's because of pulseaudio =)
You are right that it seems pulseaudio used to have this issue but not
anymore because I can't find any similar cases on google after 2007. =(

hum....

Regards,
Alex
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