Ubuntu Intrepid is flawed

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 16 November 2008 18:47, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Glenn Holmer wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 18:26 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> >> That really is _nothing_ to do with Intrepid.  Sound is (almost)
> >> entirely a kernel function.  It's complete magic, and it's easy to break
> >> it.  Just go back to a working kernel.
> >
> > What about PulseAudio?  That's certainly not part of the kernel, and
> > many people have reported having problems with it.
> >
> >> Intrepid certainly has its problems, but sound is not strictly one of
> >> them.
> >
> > I had no sound from my Audigy card until I went to the volume control
> > and de-selected "Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack", which I don't
> > remember having had to do before.  I still don't know if any of the more
> > exotic things I tried first had any effect, although it's all good now.
>
>     Here is some good data from loading Intrepid on my laptop and
> allowing no updates at all. Here is what I did:
>
>     1. Loaded Intrepid from LiveCD.
>
>     2. Re-booted to hard drive and d/l VLC and found my movies have
> sound and picture.
>
>     3. Re-booted and the re-boot hung on the item "turn off (sound
> software)" and I turned off the power.
>
>     4. Brought it back on and all sound is gone. In fact the sound
> device on the upper edge was turned off. I turned it back on but it did
> no good.
>
>     5. I re-boot and waited for it to re-boot which is a long time. When
> it came back up still no sound.
>
>
>     The conclusions are simple and not worth much I fear. But for what
> it is worth the 180 Updates have zero zero effect on the sound problem.
> I will now let the updates flow and verify this no improvement.
>
>     The problem can be my laptop. The only reason not to blame the
> laptop is that Windows runs fine and has good sound right now. It is
> Vista Basic.
>
>
> Karl

Hi Karl.

I'm sorry that your having sound problems on your machine. For what it's 
worth, vlc won't play dvd's on mine, either Kubuntu, or Ubuntu 8.10, but 
Xine, and Ogle play them with no problems, and all very strange.

Regarding your sound problems, and at the moment, after rebooting the sounds 
are gone. Would you post the output from the following commands please.

cat /proc/asound/cards
grep ^Codec /proc/asound/card?/codec*
lsmod | grep snd
lspci   (just the bit for the soundcard)

Nigel.