Alsa/Sound/ in 10.04

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 13:23 +1000, 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:
> >>      
> >>> On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 15:02 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> >>>
> >>>        
> >>>> 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?"
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>          
> >>> 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.


Did you install some alsa package?





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