everyday multimedia not supported in Ubuntu (Re: 3 days from the release, 3 machines, a few issues.

[Philippe Landau]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:34:34PM -0400, Matt Galvin wrote:
> 
> 
>>All machines:
>>
>>* mplayer, mplayer-plugin, and vlc do not play any sound whatsoever.
>>
>>* mozilla-flashplugin plays no sound and is does not seem to totally work
>>    ** a screenshot of http://www.macromedia.com/ where the menu has no
>>        menu entries, the text does not show up, not sure if this is a
>>firefox or
>>        flashplayer issue
>>        *** http://www.simplifiedcomplexity.com/images/brokenflashscreenshot.png
>>
>>* firefox crashes sometimes when viewing a page where mplayerplugin is running.
>>
>>* firefox freaks out sometimes when mplayer plugin is running and I
>>try to close the window
>>    ** http://www.simplifiedcomplexity.com/images/mplayerplugin-freakinout.png
>>
>>* gmplayer crashes
>>    ** http://www.simplifiedcomplexity.com/images/gmplayercrash.png
>>    ** kill didn't work had to kill -9 it
> 
> 
> This is all unsupported software from universe/multiverse, so it isn't
> relevant to the release.  Feel free to file bugs in Malone though.

in other words: the multimedia that most users want to use
will often not work and there will be no sound,
but that is not relevant because Ubuntu does not support it :-)
if Canonical told this new users upfront, that would be more honest.

philippe

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>>2nd No name machine
>>
>>* I am still affected by this bug:
>>https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7439
> 
> 
> This bug seems very specific to your hardware; I'm afraid there isn't time
> to do much about it for the 5.04 release.
> 
> 
>>3rd machine with an AMD 1GHz TBird, 512MB RAM, ATI All-In-Wonder Rage
>>128 pro using the oss ati driver, SB Live!:
>>
>>* Screensaver comes on fine, when unlocking the screen the mouse
>>pointer it flat black. Performing a few operations turns it white
>>again but it is all pixelated. The mouse pointer does not return to
>>normal until after a reboot/restart of X.
> 
> 
> You may need to disable the hardware cursor on this card; the wiki has some
> information on this I believe.
> 
> 
>>* The install picks the wrong sound device, it picks the on board
>>sound(Cirrus Logic CS4297) and it should pick the SoundBlaster Live!
> 
> 
> The system has no way of knowing which one you want.  If you aren't using
> the onboard sound, disable it in the BIOS, and your PCI card will be used
> by default.
> 
> 
>>* When playing sound from the onboard sound it comes out really low.
> 
> 
> Low volume, or low pitch?
> 
> 
>>* I manually selected the SB card and the sound is working better now.
>>But the PCM still gets turned down really low every time I reboot it.
> 
> 
> If this is an upgrade from an earlier Hoary snapshot, run "sudo
> dpkg-reconfigure alsa-base" and ensure that it is set to "always autosave".
> This way your mixer settings will be saved at shutdown and restored at
> startup.  This is the default now, but there was a bug some time ago in
> Hoary which used a different default.
>