Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Sound problem in Jaunty

I did a complete reformat of my laptop and put Kubuntu on it. I tried an upgrade from Intrepid, but I think that putting 8.02 on it made the update go not-so-smooth because there was a lot of breakage, and 8.02 didn't run so well anyhow on Intrepid.

So a reinstall gave me a very stable laptop that runs great, except that sound only worked through Amarok. Everything else gave some weird fuzzy sound.
A quick Google search revealed the following fix.

alsamixer -Dhw

I then simply increased the volume on the sound devices that where completely turned down and now I have sound from all other applications, like Miro and Flash-based software.
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2 comments:

  1. Cody just installed the new operating system and we have no sound - maybe this will help! Thanks!

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  2. That would be a good place to start looking. This morning I discovered that after rebooting my sound settings where reset back to crappiness.

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