This is for a system that uses Intel HDA $ lspci | grep Audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
I got this audio system to work by the doing the following: Remove all components of pulseaudio. Remove alsa-base, but reinstall alsa-oss and alsa-utils, libclalsadrv1, Further, reinstall, libsound2 and libsound2-plugins, libesdalsa0 I have not yet removed Bluetooth components - I don't have bluetooth. But after this, I changed the sound settings a little. I changed the Capture to OpenSoundSystem and the sound outputs to Intel HDA 268 (ALSA) Finally, I changed adjusted the volume levels and sound works now perfectly. The only complaint is with Virtualization. If a virtual machine is using my sound system, I cannot use it on the host simultaneously. This is upon using VirtualBox. But that is not a show-stopper. I rarely use Windows on Ubuntu - only if I ever need to use Office 2007 or if I need to use googletalk to call someone. Thanks, Balaji On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Balaji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Thanks a lot David et al, > > Daniel thanks a great deal for your inputs. Here are some of my > observations. > > PulseAudio for sure does not work at all on Intel HDA. My other laptop > which has nVIDIA HDA uses PulseAudio and I wouldn't say that sound worked > out of the box in that either. In general, after Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), the > ALSA driver had become quite stable. In 6.06 we still had problems and I > could not get the driver to recognize the headphone being plugged in. But > this retrogression in sound performance at the stage where Ubuntu is today > is simply unacceptable. We CANNOT have a poorly working sound system for a > machine that can perform composite management, virtualization and other > extreme technologies that were not standard just two years back. At this > stage of maturity, Ubuntu's choice of PulseAudio is frustrating and is also > a very very bad choice. > > I don't even understand why PulseAudio needs to replicate the functionality > of ALSA. The whole advantage of open source is that you use the work someone > else has done and build upon it. PulseAudio should provide a sound server, > but should not interfere with ALSA. It should use ALSA or OpenSoundSystem > which are lower level modules. That is if at all it should exist. I don't > even see why that project is needed. > > Finally, I'll try to check for all the configurations and compile a > resolution to the problem that I found. I could finally get all sound > functionality working fine on this laptop. But I need to think carefully as > to what all I actually did. For sure, I completely removed PulseAudio. But > in addition I also removed alsa-base, though not the complete alsa system. > > Meanwhile, let me report one more observation: > A sound static sort of noise is heard often at bootup. This is the point > where libsound2 is being loaded. But the static noise is irritating. I found > that the noise is due to a couple of volume settings that are very high. I > fixed them and rebooted and it works without the noise. Sound recording is a > little noisy - but there could be ample ambient noise in my apartment too. > > Thanks, > Balaji > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:18 AM, David Henningsson < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Balaji, I share your frustration over the sound system in Ubuntu. There >> are so many components; we have OSS, ALSA, PulseAudio, Gstreamer, Jack >> etc, and it is difficult to know where to start looking when things go >> wrong. Personally I share your view about PulseAudio - that it does not >> seem stable enough and that Ubuntu probably would be better off without >> it at the moment. Hopefully that will change in the near future. >> >> But also know that almost all of us are volonteers and luckily one of >> them (Daniel) has time to work with this issue. The best you can do at >> the moment is to have patience and continue to help the Ubuntu project >> in the ways that fit both you and the project (see >> http://www.ubuntu.com/community). >> >> -- >> erratic elapsed time count in "sound recorder" >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282316 >> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >> of the bug. >> > > > > -- > Balaji > -- Balaji -- erratic elapsed time count in "sound recorder" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282316 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs