Intrepid Sound Problems

[Daniel T Chen]

On 11/14/2008 09:15 PM, David Fox wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Karl Larsen<k5di at zianet.com>  wrote:
>
>>     I tried the w32codecs which was worthless, turned of PulseAudio
>> worthless, and began to wonder what is going on.
>
> For some reason, w32codecs was not installed in Intrepid, and
> apt-cache policy w32codecs returns (none) for an installation
> candidate, so that means to me that it can't be installed, and I
> believe I have all the restricted / medibuntu repositories for
> intrepid enabled, and I remember having it installed (as far as I can
> remember, that is) when I first installed Hardy earlier this year.
Assuming you have activated the Medibuntu repository, a 64-bit 
installation will not see w32codecs (but instead w64codecs).
>
> Pulseaudio is not enabled and nothing connects to it here, and that
> might be a gnome thing, and as far as I can tell, I don't need it.
Many people have discovered that "reverting" to ALSA simplifies the 
audio puzzle greatly.  Kubuntu does not ship with PulseAudio bits, for 
example.