[LAU] Laptop sound problems

Bill Purvis bill at billp.org
Tue Sep 27 11:53:49 UTC 2016


On 27/09/16 12:01, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Please don't reply off-list.

Apologies, I thought I was replying to list - must be having a bad day....

> On the list there are several subscribers
> who maintain an Ubuntu flavour, that AFAIK by default combines jackdbus
> and pulseaudio, they could help you much better than I could do, since
> I categorically refuse pulseaudio.
>
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:29:34 +0100, Bill Purvis wrote:
>> Thanks Ralf, but it was all working with jack in place before I set
>> this up. Pulseaudio is latest version from LAU so I don;t see why
>> there should be a problem.
> You should mention what pulseaudio version, jackd version etc. you are
> using, since "latest version from LAU" is not really useful. Perhaps
> mentioning the distro and it's release could be also helpful. I never
> used pulseaudio and never ever will use it, I don't have it installed,
> so I only could provide a link:
>
> http://www.jackaudio.org/faq/pulseaudio_and_jack.html
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
Again, many thanks for responding.

I use my laptop for all sorts of things - browsing, editing development and
make use of various programs (I hate the word apps) that produce audio: 
totem,
firefox (YouTube etc.) and I don't see any easy way to avoid pulseaudio. 
I understood
that the versions of pulseaudio from the LAU distribution were fully 
aware of Jack, and they
have proved to work in most cases.

For the record, the versions of pulseaudio modules installed are:

~$ dpkg -l | fgrep pulseaudio
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:amd64   0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu5 amd64        
GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64    1.2.4-1~ubuntu1 amd64        
GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  pulseaudio                       1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1+kxstudio1 
amd64        PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-module-bluetooth      1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1+kxstudio1 
amd64        Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11            1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1+kxstudio1 
amd64        X11 module for PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-utils                 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1+kxstudio1 
amd64        Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server

and for jack:
~$ dpkg -l | fgrep jack
ii  azr3-jack                        1.2.3-2 amd64        drawbar organ 
simulator
ii  jack-keyboard                    1:2.7.1-1kxstudio1.1 amd64        
Virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK MIDI
ii  jackd                            5 all          JACK Audio 
Connection Kit (default server package)
ii  jackd2                           2:1.9.11~20160620-5~trusty1 
amd64        JACK Audio Connection Kit (server and example clients)
ii  libjack-jackd2-0:amd64           2:1.9.11~20160620-5~trusty1 
amd64        JACK Audio Connection Kit (libraries)
ii  libjack-jackd2-0:i386            2:1.9.11~20160620-5~trusty1 
i386         JACK Audio Connection Kit (libraries)
ii  libjack-jackd2-dev:amd64         2:1.9.11~20160620-5~trusty1 
amd64        JACK Audio Connection Kit (development files)
ii  qjackctl                         2:0.4.1-1kxstudio2 amd64        
User interface for controlling the JACK sound server

Bill

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