On Saturday 04 April 2009 00:38:41 Jon Smirl wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at ntlworld.com> wrote: > >> Indeed there are. This guy has 0.9.15-test7 for Jaunty, along with updated alsa libs to support it. > >> > >> https://launchpad.net/~themuso/+archive/ppa > >> > >> You may need a Launchpad login to access it. I haven't tried it myself (yet). > > > > OK I have now tried it, with only mild success. I can't get audio out of my speakers unless I explicitly specify 5.1 surround (it defaults to stereo) and then it is deafening and the volume controls don't work. Not sure exactly what's happening. I wouldn't reccommend trying this unless you are confident you can 'go back'. > > I've had much more success with it. I'm running it right now on ubuntu > 9.04 beta. I've only noticed two problems... > > The 32bit alsa compatibility libs for 64b don't have the obsolete > symbols exported so skype won't run. These are in the code, they just > weren't exported during the build process. 32b flash works. > > jonsmirl at terra:~$ readelf -W -s /usr/bin/skype | grep > snd_pcm_hw_params_get_channels_min > 466: 00000000 57 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND > snd_pcm_hw_params_get_channels_min at ALSA_0.9.0rc4 (17) > > Second, if I switch my profile from S/PDIF to analog out, and then > back to S/PDIF, S/PDIF output is not restored. Restart pulse and it > will come back. > > I wish ubuntu would consider this for 9.04. Profiles have fixed my > main complaint about pulse. This is a major positive advance for > usability. I'm absolutely with you on that one. 0.9.14 in Ubuntu is pretty broken as far as I'm concerned. Mark > > I wonder if pulse could get smarter an use jack sense to not default > to analog out on my box when first installed? There's nothing plugged > into the analog out jacks. >
