Re: [Banshee-List] Ubuntu Problem w/ banshee-1 series

["Josiah Ritchie" <josiah ritchietribe net>]

2008/6/2 Hyperair <hyperair gmail com>:
> Josiah Ritchie wrote:
>> Where do I report problems running it on Banshee, with PPA at
>> LaunchPad or at Gnome's Bugzilla?
>>
>> For now I'll toss my symptoms here. I've been unable to play any sort
>> of audio since my install of Hardy a couple days after its release. I
>> have just about anything gstreamer related installed. I've been
>> compiling by hand, but did just try an uninstall and the RC1 from
>> launchpad. This gives me the same results I've been getting from trunk
>> for awhile. I expect it is a problem with my system, but I am getting
>> no debug output of interest the file just sits at 0 and doesn't
>> progress, make any sound or anything. It's like it's frozen, but I can
>> move to another file, last.fm stream or podcast. I can queue things
>> up. I can do everything but make the file play. When I installed RC1
>> through apt-get, it didn't add any depends so it seems that's not the
>> problem.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> JSR/
>>
> Sounds to me like a broken PulseAudio installation. I don't think it can
> happen on a fresh install, so I expect that you messed it up somehow
> after the install or did an upgrade.
>
> The fix:
> 1 Make sure the following packages are installed:
>  - gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio
>  - libasound2-plugins
> 2 Set up GStreamer to use PulseAudio.
>  2.1 Open gstreamer-properties (run gstreamer-properties from Run)
>  2.2 Set everything under Audio to use PulseAudio sound server.
> 3 Set up ALSA to use PulseAudio.
>  3.1 Run the command "asoundconf set-pulseaudio" in a terminal.
> 4 Make sure pulseaudio is running
>  4.1 Run "pulseaudio" in the Run dialog.
>  4.2 Verify that it's running. "pidof pulseaudio" should show a number.
> 5 Make sure PulseAudio is started up when you login.
>  5.1 Open Sound Properties (System->Preferences->Sound)
>  5.2 Under the "Sounds" tab make sure that "Software mixing (ESD) is
> checked.
>
> The above steps are to make sure that everything is set to use
> PulseAudio. The default settings in Ubuntu Hardy should already be set
> like that.
>
> OSS applications should be run with the "padsp" wrapper which is similar
> to "aoss" which wraps OSS for ALSA.

Is this better than what I did to change Sound and Movie playback to
ALSA? What advantages does it give?

Thanks,
JSR/

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