[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio 0.9.15 and no sound on Ubuntu

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 14.05.09 18:03, Hynek Hanke (hanke at brailcom.org) wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to correct myself that the last positive results
> that I reported in ``Distribution kernels and glitch-free''
> were still on 0.9.14 because our earlier attempt to install
> 0.9.15 from Debian wasn't really successful, which we missed.
>
> We however tried to install 0.9.15 now from Ubuntu Karmic
> and we can't get any sound to play (it seems to be playing,
> but we can't hear sound). The logfiles and pacmd ls are here:

I see now errors here. Maybe PA is playing on the wrong device by
default? Use pavucontrol to move playback streams to the right device.

> This does not seem to be connected with the latency
> experiments as it does the same for just mplayer.
> I can see a lot of Device or resource busy, which is
> strange given that this SBLive is a multi-channel
> soundcard.

As a side note: SBLive cards are not well supported on Linux. Creative
is very unfriendly to open source, and does not supply documentation
for its devices. Because PA depends on correct timing data from the
devices and the SBLive driver does not support those properly you
might not have much fun with that device.

Lennart

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