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@suse.de 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