Weird Wierd Sound Problem

#1 OldSpiceAP

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Posted 13 June 2005 - 04:39 PM

Hi all, I'm running the latest Hoary Hedgehog from Ubuntu. All was fine until the last apt-get upgrade. Here is what my problem is:

Either upon loggin in there is no sound or, there is sound or something wierder. Sometimes I log in and there is no sound so I log out and re login and then the sounds are all like:

Meewwwwoooooooblooooughhhhhhh MauhhhhhhhhDoommmeddgooofroooooogle.
Geeeeeooowmagushmananaslowbeingstupidsoundishmoooodighle

Kinda like that. All slowed down and jumbled. This is actually a good sign as if I get that I can usually logout and in again and have functional sound.

Sound card info:

0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02)

Ubuntu uses the latest Gnome so I'm using esd.

Any ideas what the heck is going on?

#2 OldSpiceAP

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Posted 13 June 2005 - 06:42 PM

Hmmm after posting this it didn't show up on the most recent threads on the home pages. Issomething wrong with the forums or is it me?

#3 iamroot

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Posted 14 June 2005 - 02:20 AM

Try uninstalling the upgrades which you did since its pretty obvious that the upgrades messed your system up.

#4 danleff

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Posted 14 June 2005 - 10:49 AM

Try looking at the question "How do I configure sound to work properly in Gnome" here.

#5 OldSpiceAP

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Posted 14 June 2005 - 06:17 PM

going back on the upgrades won't work well as what I did was moving from warty release to hoary release.

What I did:

changed apt-sources.list to the hoary one
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop -r
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I doubt going back from hoary to warty would be a smooth thing. Especially going back from xorg to xfree - yikes.

Any other idears ya'll?

#6 OldSpiceAP

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Posted 14 June 2005 - 10:16 PM

Update: I followed the link to getting sound to work right in gnome that was provided, and followed its instructions.

I noticed no difference.

One thing I notice now though is that even when there is no sound, in xmms, the sound visualization beats with the music but slow, and the counter goes slow too - it takes about a minute for the counter to show 10 seconds.