Questions related to the pulseaudio sound server, which runs the sound system by default. (Microphones, speakers, etc are all run by pulseaudio via Alsa as a backend)
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Avconv secondary audio input not working
Hello my fellow Ubuntu users,
i have written a simple shell script so it starts avconv and records my screen video, microphone and speakers. The problem is that it only records the first audio device ...
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Sound Channel map incorrect on an ION 330 ASRock
I have a ION 330 ASRock just updated on Precise and the sound channel mapping is incorrect.
Channel map is set as follow:
Front Left = Front left
Center = Rear Left
Front Right = Font Right
Rear ...
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Jack not connecting
I installed Ubuntu Studio 13.04 yesterday and Jack was working fine. Today when I tried to start it it said could not connect JACK server as client- overall operation failed.
In the message box I got ...
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pulseaudio does not start after logout and login again
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. When I logout and login again pulseaudio does not start and I have to start pulseaudio manually. When I boot my computer and login, pulseaudio is starting as expected. This ...
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Save microphone and audio out volume levels in PulseAudio to a file that can be restored from
I have to fiddle around far too often to use Skype, and it's not clearly Skype's fault.
I want to work around the problem by saving the audio level settings to disk and restoring them.
Please tell me ...
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Upgrade to 12.04 - No Audio Pulse Broken
Trying to fix audio output. NVIDIA GT 520 is the card so HDMI audio. It was working perfectly in 11.10.
Following the steps at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/So...otingProcedure
Here is my ...
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Microphone not working on Lenovo G470
I used a Lenovo G470 laptop (Core i5 2410M processor, AMD Radeon 6370M and 2GB DDR3 RAM) and I installed Ubuntu 12.04.
I can't get the microphone to work.
I encountered this type of issue before in ...
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How do I activate PulseAudio when only being logged in via ssh?
I am using a console-based music player, called cmus. It is in the repositories.
If I ssh into my desktop computer from, say, a laptop and start cmus, I would like to be able to play music. But, if ...
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Headphones don't give any sound after waking up laptop
For some strange reason they do work again after I quickly remove and reinsert the headphone-jack, so I'm guessing whatever should be remembering the audio output state is failing. This is not a big ...
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I need a simple easy reliable sound control tool
What is a simple, foolproof configuration for sound playing on speakers, a simple jukebox or playlist-player, a volume control onscreen, and input through the microphone jack?
I currently have sound ...
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I can't get HDMI sound (Ubuntu 13.04) [duplicate]
I have an audiodisplay HDMI device (VGA ATI 5770) and sounds impossible to get sound from it.. And after trying change some things (in pulseaudio (default.pa) e directly in the ALSA settings) now I ...
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No Sound after plugging in a Headset Buddy
My sound was working on Ubuntu 12.04, but I bought a Headset Buddy so that I could plug in my headset into my one jack. After I did that, I lost all sound when I unplugged it. Even plugging it back in ...
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Enable Skype sounds *without* enabling *all* system sound effects
I'd like to enable the ringing and notification sounds in Skype without enabling generic system sounds, i.e. without turning on all system sound effects in PulseAudio volume control.
Is there a way ...
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Can't select Blue Yeti Pro USB Microphone in sound settings menu
Today, I recieved a shiny new Blue Yeti Pro USB microphone in the mail. I did my research to make sure that it would work. I found the following websites, and this is what led me to believe that it ...
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Switch between microphones in Ubuntu 13.04
I want to record sounds from my piano.
For this I have a jack cable that connects the piano with my laptop.
My laptop has an built-in microphone that I don't want to use it when recording from my ...
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how do I re-activate PulseAudio?
I disabled Pulseaudio to be able to use my microphone for SKype, and now the volume controls don't work, which I understand, is a common problem. I read that somebody fixed their Skype microphone by ...
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Audio output headphone jack not working on windows , but works fine on ubuntu 13.10 [closed]
I had this situation earlier with Ubuntu 12.04 , also i found the solution which worked perfectly fine but im no more able to look for that solution again, i cant find it anywhere.
Problem is that my ...
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espeak returns error on ubuntu server
I want to use espeak on my server, so I can scare my girlfriend from work :)
ubuntu 11.04 server.
sudo espeak -v en "Hello i am espeak"
Error:
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown ...
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No sound running Xubuntu on a Fujitsu Lifebook E8020D
I am having the following problem. I recently installed Xubuntu 12.04 on my Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E8020D and had a problem with no sound. The sound card showed up when I typed
aplay -l
I got the ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 bluetooth A2DP does not work
I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 in a new partition and I have some issues with bluetooth.
I usually use bluetooth to connect to my wireless headset, in the old partition with Ubuntu 12.10 everything is ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 pulseaudio doesn't load
I have just installed pulseaudio to my new, fresh ubuntu 13.04, but it doesn't start. When I press on PulseAudio Equalizer icon, nothing happens. Any ideas, what could be wrong?
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Sound icon not working
I am using Ubuntu 13.04. last time i installed Pulse-audio-4.0 after which a weird problem started with my sound icon.In sound icon there are two hyphens following the speaker like <|--
i clicked ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 No USB sound output for Audiolab Q-DAC
Recently I upgraded my sound system from using mobo's internal audio output to USB2.0 by connecting to a USB DAC (Audiolab Q-DAC). The first time connecting the UBUNTU 12.10 to USB DAC was successful, ...
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grabbing audio from sound card
I want redirect audio sound coming towards my sound card into file such way that they don’t mix to each other if two or more media player are running at same time ,they should create different ...
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No audio output from headphones in 13.04
I recently updated to 13.04 from 12.10. I have a problem with the audio from headphones. I faced this problem on 12.10 also which i was able to fix it by downloading the latest drivers.
I've tried ...
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The internal microphone on my laptop is disabled. How should I troubleshoot?
My laptop has a built in audio subsystem, that alsamixer knows as:
Chip:
Intel PantherPoint HDMI
Card: (from /proc/asound/cards)
HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
HDA Intel PCH at 0xa0610000 ...
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Skype 4 doesn't function with Ubuntu 13.04
Can someone help me? When I start skype with Ubuntu 13.04 I get the this error:
skype
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib ...
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How to fix the audio output now? After restart it works once or twice and then stop working sound
Everytime after restart the system it works and then suddently my sound output stop working.
sun@sun-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:~$ speaker-test
speaker-test 1.0.25
Playback device is default
Stream ...
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Issue with mute button UK Dell keyboard with music controls
My Dell keyboard has a music type controls (volume, mute, etc...), the mute button has cause me problems. Tried various tricks/tweaks fromn this forum, in the end I re-installed, as had to fix ...
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How to automatically change volume level when un-/plugging headphones?
What I want is the following:
When I plug in my headphones, I want the sound to be un-muted and set to a specific volume level.
When I unplug my headphones, I want the sound to be muted (or set to ...
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Setting up a bluetooth audio-microphone headset on ubuntu 12.04
I recently purchased a Henson BTH033 bluetooth headset with a built in microphone. I would ideally like to use it as my primary audio-microphone output-input on my ubuntu install.
Here is my ...
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Sound Blaster X-Fi HD (external USB) problem with 24Bit/96Khz
I'm trying to configure Sound Blaster X-Fi HD (an external USB) to 24Bit/96Khz, but from some reason it make noises.
I've tried to configure:
24Bit/48Khz - Works without noises.
16Bit/96Khz - Works ...
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Spotify / Pulseaudio problem
Sometimes when I start Spotify, pulseaudio crashes and the Spotify does not work.
The sound on other programs works normally. Restarting pulseaudio or Spotify does not help. Restarting PC helps, ...
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pulse audio volume control
having some trouble with pulse audio volume control.
When run it, I get the error message you can see in the window in the screen shot below.
However when I run start-pulseaudio-x11 in the ...
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Sound is too fast in chrome using Flash player
I have NPAPI flash player disabled and everything runs fine until I use VLC player.
So, the thing is: I open Chrome, then VLC, watch the movie there (not necessary till the end), stop it and then ...
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Trouble connecting bluetooth headset in HSP mode
Short description
Being able to use my BT headset with A2DP, I'm unable to switch it to HSP/HFP to use the microphone which I need to e.g. make Skype calls. As soon as I switch it with Blueman, ...
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How to upgrade pulseaudio
I got some issues with sound, sometimes it freezes and get out of sync with picture. VLC is giving me error, and there is said that I should update to pulseaudio 3.0. I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 and ...
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Remote initialization of pulseaudio devices
I am administrating remotely a Ubuntu 12.04 which was originally installed as a desktop machine. I am away from home, so I want to use SSH in order to let my sound card to get access to a USB radio ...
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no sound in Ubuntu 12.04 and /dev/dsp does not exist
Computer isn't playing audio. I've checked the hardware volume buttons, pavucontrol, and alsamixer. Nothing is muted. I've added the ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev. I've also done ...
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Set default sound device output
I own a pair of usb powered speakers, and I am having trouble finding how to set the usb speakers as the default output. I found the setting where you can switch the outputs but no where to asssign a ...
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How do I stop sound coming from my speakers with a faulty headphone socket?
On my laptop, I have a faulty headphone socket, so when I insert headphones into it, the speakers do not mute. I can confirm that this problem is caused by faulty hardware and not software as when I ...
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PulseAudio is not working at all
I installed PulseAudio two weeks ago and since then I've been trying to open it and it doesn't.
Does anyone have any solution?
P.S. I have a horrible Speaker set.
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12.04.2 - Sound Blaster ZX card detected, but no sound comes out of my headphones
I have been having issues with my Sound Blaster ZX sound card in Ubuntu 12.04.2 64-bit. Pavucontrol detects sound from YouTube videos and other things (the sound meter jumps around with the sound), ...
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No soundcard found 12.04 after kernel update
After newest kernel update I have lost my sound card. There is only sound via USB adapter. My headphones or speakers are working only through this device. The sound setting widget doesn't show any ...
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pulseaudio --kill permission denied? (Something's using my soundcard and I don't know what it is.)
So, a few weeks ago I was having problems with skype and pulseaudio/alsa things, so I went to this link and found a way to supposedly kill and start pulseaudio at will. So, in etc/pulse/client.conf, I ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 crackling and popping sound
I've an Asus Z92V, I am running Ubuntu 12.10 and since I installed Ubuntu on this notebook the audio keep crackling and popping continuously.
Moreover the volume bar on gnome-shell panel keep jumping ...
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Get pulseaudio current sample rate and bit rate
just bought sound blaster X-Fi HD (USB) and i'm trying to understand what is the current output (sample rate and bit rate).
I've configured /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and set there the following values:
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how to disable internal speaker audio
Under 12.04 :
How do I disable globally the internal speaker of my computer without having to unset it to each user session ?
I've tried to add "blacklist pcspkr" into "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist" ...
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Microphone not working on Ubuntu 12.04 with asus eee pc 1000he
Help, friends! I am lost, and know not what to do...
I have both Pulseaudio and the ALSA-mixer running on my Asus EEE PC 1000HE, and while the speaker sound is fine, the microphone has majorly ...
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Pulseaudio on RaspberryPi - no sound when streaming to remote sink [migrated]
I'm trying to route audio playback to remote machine using Pulseaudio DLNA capabilities. While I believe I successfully transmit data from one machine to another, audio output on sink machine remains ...
