I don't recommend pulse if everything works now. Pulse is the more the mainstream and scalable solution now. That being said there are so many options with it, it's easy to screw up (speaking from experience). This leads you to frantically find what you did that hosed some or all of it, or starting over. I have no idea what half the options in the config file for pulse are, or why they even exist. I only use pulse because of rolling updates and dependencies, otherwise I'd stay with strictly with Alsa if I could (there is a plugin for Alsa to use pulse, which I think then goes back to Alsa anyway- that was fun setting up). -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > Ok, don't ask me how but it's working now. I guess beating it up enough and > publically asking for help did the trick... > > That said, does anyone know if maybe Pulse is what we should all be using > nowadays? I've kind of lost track... > > > On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Thomas Lunde wrote: > >> 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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jeremy MountainJohnson >>>> Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com >>>> >>>> >>>> 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! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list