Alsa/Sound/ in 10.04

[Basil Chupin]

On 03/05/10 13:23, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 03/05/10 02:23, zongo saiba wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 01:18 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> On 02/05/10 22:45, zongo saiba wrote:
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>>>> On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 15:02 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>> On 05/01/2010 05:13 AM, zongo saiba wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have upgraded my box to 10.04 and the sound is broke now. Plus,
>>>>>> upgrading sent me back to also 1.0.21. I was on 1.0.22 on 9.10.
>>>>>> Nevertheless, when I updated my also in 9.10, this command-line
>>>>>> sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop worked. Now, in 10.04 i get command not
>>>>>> found. Anyone has any idea why?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Zongo
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>> I had this issue rebuilding an 8.04 for a friend. This helped:
>>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting
>>>>> Turned out that the sound modules weren't getting loaded, so I used the
>>>>> suggested: "Do you have the sound modules installed?"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>            
>>>> Two things:
>>>>
>>>> 1 - I have upgraded to 10.04 and tried to upgrade alsa 1.0.23 -->
>>>> Every-time I reboot, I freeze. I have checked all the logs and nothing
>>>> really tells me that there is any issue anywhere. Plus, the Jack is
>>>> definitely not working anymore under 10.0.4.
>>>> 2 - I reverted back to Alsa 1.0.22 and now I do not freeze anymore but
>>>> the Jack is still not working.
>>>>
>>>> I would be interested to know if anyone has an issue with freeze and
>>>> sound; in particular with the Jack under 10.0.4 and Alsa 1.0.23.
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Zongo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> I don't know if this will be of any help, but it may.
>>>
>>> I originally installed Lucid Beta2 and then kept upgrading it until I
>>> had the final release of 10.04.
>>>
>>> The sound (with Soundblaster) was working perfectly.
>>>
>>> Today, however, I decided that I will install 10.04 as a new install,
>>> completely from scratch.
>>>
>>> I had no sound. Alsamixer was installed but it was not behaving as it
>>> normally does.
>>>
>>> I spent around 30 minutes stuffing around trying to work out why I had
>>> no sound - and then it "hit me": 10.04 by default installed Pulse Audio!
>>>
>>> Got rid of all Pulse Audio rubbish and got my sound back.
>>>
>>> BC
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> I thought that  taking pulse audio out of Ubuntu was a bad idea. Last
>> time I did this, I had to reinstall my system as it would only boot to a
>> terminal. No more X11. The only thing I did was remove .pulse audio. Can
>> you tell me how you removed pulse audio?
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Zongo
>>
>>      
> I used the Synaptic Package Manager (under System>  Administration).
> Selected Pulse Audio and "told" the Manager to zap the damn thing from
> my system. It did, and I then had my sound back.
>
> BC
>    

Heck! Forgot to add this part:

after you remove Pulse Audio install alsamixer and in that make sure 
that Analog Output Jack is active.

BC


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