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Re: [LUG] Squeeze audio problems

 

The only probs I have had with Audio on Mint is after I installed Skype!

The line in for recording did not map using pulse and was only cured
after uninstalling Skype.


On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 11:55 +0000, George wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 08:22 +0000, Simon Waters wrote:
> > On 08/02/11 07:54, tom wrote:
> > >
> > > Hearing some reports about audio being borked in squeeze - anyone?
> > 
> > Not heard anything, Google says nothing since 2010 when Squeeze got the
> > fix for Intel sound cards (well it was testing back then for a reason).
> > So where are you hearing these rumours?
> > 
> 
> I run, quote "Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a rolling distribution
> based on Debian Testing" and I've had a strange audio problem.  I have 2
> nearly identical PC's based on AMD Athlon 64's, both with Mint Debian.
> One ran audio perfectly on every app but the other would run sound on
> Gnome Mplayer but not on Rhythmbox, Movie Player, Mplayer or Flash in
> the browser.  The difference seemed to be in Pulse Audio which on the
> good computer recognised the sound card but on the other didn't.  The
> bad sound card (surprise, surprise) was an onboard Intel HDA SBx00
> Azalia.  I disabled it and tried 3 other sound cards but Real Audio
> didn't see any of them.  They were all being recognised by the kernel at
> boot but not being passed to Pulse Audio.  I eventually bit the bullet
> and re-installed Mint Debian with a CM8378 Analog Stereo card and
> everything works fine.  (From my choice of cards you may deduce I'm not
> into Hi Fi quality)
> 
> I did a lot of googling but couldn't find anything on how to get Pulse
> Audio to look for a sound card.  There was a lot on how Pulse Audio
> "just works".  And I decided that life was too short to find out how to
> trawl through the boot sequence to find the problem.
> 
> I've been running this version of Debian with Gnome for about 3 weeks
> now (it only came out at Christmas) and it seems good.  I may try it
> with other desk tops when I get time.  Like David, I was driven away
> from Mepis by KDE4, yet until then I swore I wouldn't touch Gnome.
> 
> George
> 
> 



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