At some point, Ubuntu threw pulseaudio in the mix (says the guy who spent an hour reconfiguring sound on 12.x after he accidentally unplugged the usb external sound card & auto-re-config broke sound). 

Good luck. Sound really should be a solved problem by now. 

Thomas


On Mar 25, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:

> There actually isn't/wasn't an /etc/asound.conf... that was one of the annoying parts.
> 
> I'll have a look at that link.
> 
> I kinda wonder if maybe alsa isn't the Top Dog in sound anymore.
> 
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Jeremy MountainJohnson wrote:
> 
>> Did you also copy over /etc/asound.conf (or where ever Ubuntu stores
>> the global ALSA config file)?
>> 
>> Hate to lead you to other distro territory for this, but it could help:
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#Upmixing.2FDownmixing
>> 
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>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:
>>> Ok folks, it's "Alsa Is Driving Me Crazy YET AGAIN" time.
>>> 
>>> My media center computer's SSD (which is ancient and crappy) is thinking
>>> about dying, and I wanted some different software on there (DOWNgrading
>>> MythTV to 0.24, in fact) so perfect time to throw a new drive in there and
>>> start from scratch since I have a backup.
>>> 
>>> Now I can't get sound to work right.
>>> 
>>> These are both Ubuntu systems, the new one is 12.10, the old one, uh.
>>> Probably 12.04 via updates.
>>> 
>>> I... remember going through a lot of trouble to get alsa to work correctly
>>> in the first place, including giving m full surround sound etc. Now the
>>> thing doesn't even show I have the surround channels.
>>> 
>>> Here's the thing. I copied over .asoundrc. I even copied over all of
>>> /usr/share/alsa from the previous installation. Still nothing. At one point
>>> I managed to get SOME surround sound but the channels were a mess...
>>> 
>>> Anyway, before I go looking for an alsa-list with it's crazy amount of
>>> unhelpful snark, I figured I'd throw it on here.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know exactly what I need to copy from the old installation to
>>> make it so alsa has the exact same configuration?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> TIA!
>>> 
>>> 
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