Hi There,

I've been using Kubuntu on my system and it's been runnign pretty well in general but when i updated to 9.10 Karmis in October, my sound for some reason seemingly stopped working. I figured out that if i crank my amp up all the way, I get sound in a reasonable volume to work but then again, that's just wrong! With the Kubtuntu forum ppl i got my sound as far as playing nicely with OSS in an okay volume (amps not at 100%). But now Amarok won't play anything and neither is KDE cause it would be using Alsa eh?
Any one here knows how to help - I wanna get back onto ALSA (and get it working properly) but don't know how? I'm getting crazy, been forced to use Audacious to play music cause I can set it to play with OSS which is fine but not what I really want...

Help n suggestions are appreciated!
Thanks,
Ron

Oh also, I used sudo

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dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base

trying to set my system back to ALSA but that wouldn't change a thing...

We have found that these issues are often related to PulseAudio.

On my machine, disabling PulseAudio made many things better (fixed stuttering, crashes, distortions, etc).

If you have pulse-audio, go to /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and set flat-volumes = no. This cured the very low volume, for me.

markey wrote:We have found that these issues are often related to PulseAudio.

On my machine, disabling PulseAudio made many things better (fixed stuttering, crashes, distortions, etc).

How would i disable it?

annew wrote:If you have pulse-audio, go to /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and set flat-volumes = no. This cured the very low volume, for me.

it already is set to no

cerr wrote:

markey wrote:We have found that these issues are often related to PulseAudio.

On my machine, disabling PulseAudio made many things better (fixed stuttering, crashes, distortions, etc).

How would i disable it?

One way: Uninstalling it.

Removing libxine1-pulse is the easiest way to disable it on SUSE based systems, Kubuntu probably has a similar package.

sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio-* should do the trick.
Once you have got rid of those packages (do not try to remove libpulse0, it will remove half of KDE) you will need to remove the $HOME/.kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc and restart KDE.

Mamarok wrote:sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio-* should do the trick.

This is what i did but it did not do the trick for me
I'm still stuck with OSS being the only sound system working
Any other suggestions?
I'm soory for the late reply but didn't get to take care of that till now.
Thanks for continued support!
Ron

annew wrote:If you have pulse-audio, go to /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and set flat-volumes = no. This cured the very low volume, for me.

This already was set to no:

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flat-volumes = no

While that setting cured the problem for me at the time, there have been several updates since then, and unfortunately I'm back to very low sound.