February 2009 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] no sound from ubuntu

by Gregory Avedissian

Which model of Dell is it? I can tell you that they're a pain with sound. Search for your model and "sound" at the ubuntu forum, and see what others have done. Try different settings in gnome-sound-preferences - you might need to set all devices to ALSA, or you might need to set them all to Pulse Audio, as the person in this thread did - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=997506 Search for Dell in that thread - post#70 just changed to a newer kernel than the one on the install CD and got sound to work. If all else fails, drop back to 8.04, and one of our WLUG members who has a Dell laptop with sound working will lend you her config files. Greg Strazdas, Rich wrote: > | Hmmm.... do you have pulseaudio setup on your system? > | > | John > > Yes, version 0.9.10. I'm not sure what it does. > $ pulseaudio --version > W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader. > pulseaudio 0.9.10 > $ pulseaudio --check > W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader. > $ > > | I had a similiar problem with my Gentoo system with KDE. > | > | I spent a large ammount of time checking out ALSA, kernel > configuration etc... | | and I only got sound only after turning on my > front mike input (in the output | | | section). > | > | It might be a good idea to try checking out KMix (if you use KDE 3.5) > or whatever | sound mixer applies. > | > | kstratton(a)fastmail.us > > I'm running GNOME. Gnome ALSA Mixer says I have SigmaTel STAC9200, which > matches the "aplay -l" output: > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** > card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > It allows me to set volumes on Master, PCM, LFE, Capture and Capture > (again). I don't understand them, but they're all set on max. > > -Rich > This e-mail message is generated from?Coghlin Companies Inc. or one of its subsidiaries including, but not limited to, Columbia Electrical Contractors, Inc. d/b/a Columbia Tech; DCI Automation, Inc.d/b/a DCI Engineering Services; Cogmedix, Inc.; and Coghlin Precision, Inc. This message may contain information that is?CONFIDENTIAL, and may also possibly contain information that is being held as a Trade Secret.? The information is intended to be disclosed solely to the addressee(s).? If you are the intended recipient, any information herein is to be held as CONFIDENTIAL pursuant to any Non-Disclosure Agreement applicable between the parties, or as a Trade Secret as applicable.? If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this e-mail information is prohibited.? If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete it from your computer system. > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Feb. 19, 2009

Re: [Wlug] no sound from ubuntu

by Strazdas, Rich

| Hmmm.... do you have pulseaudio setup on your system? | | John Yes, version 0.9.10. I'm not sure what it does. $ pulseaudio --version W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader. pulseaudio 0.9.10 $ pulseaudio --check W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader. $ | I had a similiar problem with my Gentoo system with KDE. | | I spent a large ammount of time checking out ALSA, kernel configuration etc... | | and I only got sound only after turning on my front mike input (in the output | | | section). | | It might be a good idea to try checking out KMix (if you use KDE 3.5) or whatever | sound mixer applies. | | kstratton(a)fastmail.us I'm running GNOME. Gnome ALSA Mixer says I have SigmaTel STAC9200, which matches the "aplay -l" output: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 It allows me to set volumes on Master, PCM, LFE, Capture and Capture (again). I don't understand them, but they're all set on max. -Rich This e-mail message is generated from?Coghlin Companies Inc. or one of its subsidiaries including, but not limited to, Columbia Electrical Contractors, Inc. d/b/a Columbia Tech; DCI Automation, Inc.d/b/a DCI Engineering Services; Cogmedix, Inc.; and Coghlin Precision, Inc. This message may contain information that is?CONFIDENTIAL, and may also possibly contain information that is being held as a Trade Secret.? The information is intended to be disclosed solely to the addressee(s).? If you are the intended recipient, any information herein is to be held as CONFIDENTIAL pursuant to any Non-Disclosure Agreement applicable between the parties, or as a Trade Secret as applicable.? If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this e-mail information is prohibited.? If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete it from your computer system.

Feb. 18, 2009

Re: [Wlug] no sound from ubuntu

by kstratton＠fastmail.us

I had a similiar problem with my Gentoo system with KDE. I spent a large ammount of time checking out ALSA, kernel configuration etc... and I only got sound only after turning on my front mike input (in the output section). It might be a good idea to try checking out KMix (if you use KDE 3.5) or whatever sound mixer applies. -- kstratton(a)fastmail.us

Feb. 18, 2009

Re: [Wlug] no sound from ubuntu

by John Stoffel

Hmmm.... do you have pulseaudio setup on your system? John

Feb. 18, 2009

no sound from ubuntu

by Strazdas, Rich

Hi, first post here! I'm a part-time Linux user, with experience on Mandrake and Fedora. After installing ubuntu 8.10, I find that my computer is very quiet, even when I don't want it to be! The only sound I can get is the beep when the arrow keys reach a limit, such as scrolling to the end of a list, or the end of a command line. The master volume is high, I have permission to Use Audio Devices, nothing is muted, am I missing something basic??? I've been to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems> and lots of links from there. Learned a lot, accomplished little. :) I can turn off the beep (alert) in Sound Preferences, but I can't turn on other sounds, (Rhythmbox, youtube, etc.) Some info I picked up is shown below. I wasn't clear from checking http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main <http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main> whether my sound card is supported by ALSA. The Intel soundcard list includes ESB2, but nothing else remotely like 631xESB/632xESB. If that's the case, am I screwed? aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 lspci -v 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB High Definition Audio Controller (rev 09) Subsystem: Dell Device 01c0 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 Memory at dfffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xdfffc000 irq 16 -Rich This e-mail message is generated from?Coghlin Companies Inc. or one of its subsidiaries including, but not limited to, Columbia Electrical Contractors, Inc. d/b/a Columbia Tech; DCI Automation, Inc.d/b/a DCI Engineering Services; Cogmedix, Inc.; and Coghlin Precision, Inc. This message may contain information that is?CONFIDENTIAL, and may also possibly contain information that is being held as a Trade Secret.? The information is intended to be disclosed solely to the addressee(s).? If you are the intended recipient, any information herein is to be held as CONFIDENTIAL pursuant to any Non-Disclosure Agreement applicable between the parties, or as a Trade Secret as applicable.? If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this e-mail information is prohibited.? If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete it from your computer system.

Feb. 18, 2009

Is MS becoming less evil?

by Clint Moyer

I'd say no, but there is this: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/02/red-hat-virtualization-deal… http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/02/15/Microsoft-and-Re…

Feb. 17, 2009

REMINDER: Upcoming meeting THURS 7PM

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI everybody, Our monthly WLUG meeting will be held this coming Thursday, Feb 19th, at 7:00 PM in the Access Grid room on the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA. We don't have a specific topic for this meeting unless we get a volunteer from the audience between now and the meeting time. As always, light refreshments will be available at the meeting, and we'll go out for pizza afterwards. See ya there! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJminTHl0iXDssISsRAtsWAJ0SUghV2rZBFgAZ+vQ0r102C/YfswCfeUi3 P3IOTZmoXAfc33wsQe84umY= =bCTv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Feb. 17, 2009

GIMP tutorials

by E Johnson

A couple of WLUG members had been interested in GIMP a few months back. A presentation I gave to the group last Fall may have been effective that it could have been, since we couldn't get the big monitors working in the meeting room. But now while looking for one piece of info, I came across this in article Linux Haxor: "50 Tutorials To Get You Started With Gimp." http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/02/09/50-tutorials-to-get-you-started-with-g… Some of these tutorials seem to be concerned with specific special effects, but others, such as "Using and Manipulating Layers with Gimp" and "Retouching hair and eye (video)" might be of interest to non-artist persons, and to those who want to work with photos they have uploaded from digital camera. Enjoy, Liz J

Feb. 14, 2009

Re: [Wlug] Miro gets a makeover

by nassar＠alum.wpi.edu

PCF is amazingly efficient at turning the little money they have into usable software. If you can, give them a donation. https://www.miroguide.com/donate >>>>> "Rich" == Richard Klein <richspk(a)gmail.com> writes: Rich> I haven't read the article yet, but it looks like Miro 2.0 has Rich> launched. Miro was the topic of last month's meeting. Rich> http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/10/miro-gets-a-makeover/ Rich> -- Rich _______________________________________________ Wlug Rich> mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Rich> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Feb. 14, 2009

Re: [Wlug] tux's new prison

by Keith Wright

> From: Doug Mildram <dmildram(a)gmail.com> > > Tux looks a bit worried in his "new" computer room..... > OK so he's homeless and I merely bought him a bottle and > a limited air supply with the other derelicts in my man-cave... > > ( ! warning, no disturbing images, 3 boring pix at.... ) > > http://dmildram.jalbum.net/Server+DesktopClutter/index.html It's good this came with a warning, or else I would have been very disappointed to find no disturbing pictures of Penguins in Bondage. -- Keith PS: so Google it or ask a Zappa fan.

Feb. 14, 2009