On Mon, February 4, 2013 7:47 pm, Lee Isaacson wrote: > Hi All, > > I hope that someone on this list has had the same problems I am having > and knows what the work around is. > > I am am having a weird problem and I have tried a lot of distros and > would like your help. > > I am using a Creative Audigy 2 Value Sound Card with a 5.1 analogue > setup and an analogue microphone. >
Which chip/driver is it? cat /proc/asound/cards > Preferably I would like to use Ubuntu as my distro as they have a > large repository. > Every distro has a large repo. Pulse audio is funded in part by redhat so you will generally get better performance from a fedora system if you are having issues with ubuntu or debian. Arch linux also has pretty decent support for pulse audio too. If you cannot resolve the issue with a new fedora then you should definitely contact the pulse audio mailing list and let them know that you have found a bug or are having usability issues with your card. They are pretty quick to respond over there. > When using Ubuntu and I disable Pulse Audio my microphone works and I > install all the extra files to play back cd's etc but when I play it > back no sound comes out. > You shouldn't need to disable pulse audio at all unless you are running a distro from over 5 years ago. > If I enable pulse audio it will only work using two speakers. > > If I try enable pulse audio on 5 speakers and doing the test I get > jerky sound and I tried googling and testing and working inf files > changing things in the pulse files but that does not help. > > When using Mageia version 2 I disable Pulse Audio and my sound works > fine but only with the k music player. If I use Rythmbox no sound > comes out at all. > > To me it looks like the later Distros require pulse audio to play back > stuff. > Pulse audio is integrated into gnome so if you want to use gnome desktop you need pulse audio. > Is there a way to get my sound card working correctly with Pulse Audio > installed. > Out of interest have you also tried using JACK just for comparison and testing purposes? -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
