I don't get any kernel warning/error messages from what I can tell. I checked /var/log/messages and dmesg (hopefully that's where I'm supposed to look). The only messages I get are from selecting ALSA output: "[00000351] alsa audio output error: write failed (Broken pipe)" or if I select pulseaudio: "pulseaudio[5593]: module-alsa-sink.c: Got POLLERR from ALSA". These usually happen near the beginning of a sound, but also may not come up for several minutes. When I say OSS works, I mean that when I set Sound Events and Music and Movies in my Sound Preferences (setting the default setting for programs), sound works fine (I just don't get simultaneous sounds, which I believe is normal because of OSS). Also, if I set Amarok or VLC to use OSS and not ALSA or pulseaudio, my sound works. However, if I run VLC with the aoss wrapper, I get the same error messages as above. Totem and Rhythmbox don't work either. Thanks so much for looking at this for me. On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > At Wed, 9 Jul 2008 20:31:19 -0400, > Kristin Low wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I apologize if this isn't the right place to ask for help, but no one who > > I've asked knows how to help and I'm somewhat new to Linux. > > > > I'm running Ubuntu Hardy Heron and haven't changed any config files > > (practically a fresh install) however ALSA does not work properly and I > > assume that because of this, Pulseaudio doesn't work either (it breaks > when > > ALSA does). Playing a song, I can hear the song for a random length of > time > > and then it cuts out. If I run VLC from a terminal, it claims "alsa > output > > error: write error (broken pipe)" as the cause and continues to write > that > > over the screen until I force VLC to quit. If I restart the song again, > the > > same thing occurs. Pulseaudio cuts out and says it gets a POLLERR from > ALSA. > > When I login, only part of the login sounds play and are cut just the > same > > as any songs or audio files I try. It seems like my sound card is > detected > > fine, and OSS works when I select to use it instead. It's on a laptop, a > > Toshiba Satellite a70. > > Do you have any kernel error/warning messages? > Also, do you mean "OSS works" that OSS emulation works? > > > Takashi > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
