Josiah Ritchie wrote: > 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/ > PulseAudio's a sound server and the default sound system on Ubuntu Hardy. It provides certain features like networked sound and individual apps' volume control. For the latter, you'll need pavucontrol installed. -- Hyperair
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