[Bug 637325] Re: Sound system seriously messed over after updating to 10.10

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[Expired for update-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity
for 60 days.]

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Sound system seriously messed over after updating to 10.10

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  I've just upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 beta...

  You guys REALLY REALLY need to spend a little time (or a lot?) and get
  the sound system working right. It really hasn't been working that
  great for several releases, but it's gone further downhill this time.

  First and most annoying, My gnome-radio app, based on a PVR card, has
  been broken, and until I get further help, I have no hope of making it
  work.

  Next, I couldn't even fire up the pavucontrol to see the sound card
  settings!

  pulseaudio doesn't seem to be fully installed. Or correctly
  configured.

  Shoot, not even ubuntu-bug was not running correctly-- the ibus stuff
  caused it to die an early death. Perhaps some missing dependencies in
  the packages? I tossed in a set of ibus- packages, and I stop getting
  that error message from ubuntu-bug. Now it dies with just a plain ":
  Fatal IO error: client killed" message.

  Gnome-radio cannot play anything, because /dev/mixer is gone, and how to get it back I have no idea.
  Kradio4 won't play either, it looks because /dev/video24 and /dev/video32 are gone. (there *is* a /dev/video0, but
  that doesn't seem to be much consolation).

  Pulseaudio appears to be misconfigured (probably always has been), and
  I can't even find up-to-date instructions on how to configure it
  correctly. I've by-hand, used apt-get to fetch some pulseaudio
  packages, and that seemed to have helped. But the blogs, etc, all seem
  out of date, as there are things they advise doing, that just aren't
  there. One serious shortcoming seems to be that mixer connections seem
  absent or broken.

  the "play" utility that comes with sox only wants to actually play a
  sound file over the speakers every other time. On the times when
  nothing is done, silence of the same length as the sound file is
  played in its stead.  And those sound files that do play seem subject
  to some weird 2-Hz sort of phonomena that involves a thin slice of
  some other part of the sound file being inserted about twice a second
  or so into the stream. The result is weirdly choppy sound.

  Amarok plays (about) every other song, playing silence of the
  appropriate length instead. If I hit the pause button twice, I can ge
  the sound back over the speakers. Pausing and unpausing has the same
  sort of effect. Under some circumstances, such an action can make the
  2-hz noisiness stop. I noticed that I bring up the pavucontrol, and
  end it when amarok is playing a sound without the 2hz noise, the 2-hz
  noise will resume.

  In the last release, the stuff being played from the radio card was
  never subject to silence or 2-hz noise.

  I have never gotten as far on previous releases as I have this time in
  investigating this pulseaudio stuff. So, if your update-manager
  process has made great strides in carrying a good configuration
  forward, it's now doing a great job of carrying a bad configuration of
  pulseaudio forward, too.

  If there are some simple/complex steps I could take to clean this up
  and get decent audio, I'd really appreciate the help.

  murf

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.142.13
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Sep 13 09:34:40 2010
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager

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