Sound under Ubuntu – I wasn’t able to solve the problem entirely yet. But it is reported that it is getting much better than before. I hope that someday I will be able to watch DVD under Ubuntu and use audacity for recording at the same time. I was able to do that under Ubuntu 8.04. But then I did the upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 – and the playback function of the DVD was broken (sound distorted/scratched). By the way, I have similar problems under Windows XP.
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Sound under Ubuntu causes problems
Thursday, January 29th, 2009Removing TrueCrypt 6.0a
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009At the moment, I am removing TrueCrypt 6.0a with Synaptic from my Ubuntu 8.10 machine. After that, I will download and install the current version 6.1a.
Trying to install tor
Saturday, December 6th, 2008Setup of the JACK Audio Connection Kit
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008This is my momentary setup of the JACK Audio Connection Kit.
It differs a little bit from my previous setup. My setup isn’t perfect yet, but the numer of x-runs is most of the time in an acceptable manner.
Wafesurfer
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008I just installed Wafesurfer (‘Applications’ > ‘Add/Remove…’). I had installed this program under Win XP. I hope that it will help me to understand more about acoustic phonetics.
Starting XAMPP under Intrepid Ibex
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008I just started XAMPP under Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). I just had to type into the terminal the following command:
/opt/lampp/lampp start
I am using XAMPP under Windows XP. And I am happy that it works under Ubuntu, too. I will try to install WordPress MU under Linux as well as MediaWiki under Linux. I hope that it will work out.
Ubuntu Studio
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008I just downloaded Ubuntu Studio as torrent.
Starting the download of Ubuntu Studio 8.10
I hope that the use of Ubuntu Studio will solve my sound problems.
TinyUrl Creator
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008I just added the TinyUrl Creator plugin to the Firefox browser.
TinyUrl Creator has been installed
I am using this add-on under Win XP. It works under Ubuntu, too. You can see, the migration has to be done step by step. One step at a time.
Sound problems (nohz=off)
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Because I have sound problems under Ubuntu 8.10, I typed into the terminal “sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst”. Afterwards, I made a small change, and added “nohz=off”.
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=bae33ac1-4906-40bc-9924-50fecb63acb0 ro quiet splash nohz=off
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
quiet
I found this trick here. I hope that it will work out.
Additional remark: I just followed this tutorial. It is for Ubuntu 8.04. I am using Ubuntu 8.10. But I hope that it will help to solve my issues.
November 5, 2008: It didn’t work out. I am still having sound problems. I will try to make a separate installation of Ubuntu on a different hard drive. It was a mistake to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 even though some things are better now. It would be better to use two different installations: Ubuntu 8.04 on one hard drive, and a fresh installation of Ubuntu 8.10 on a different hard drive. Never touch a running system. It might get worse.
