Sound on Ubuntu Feisty, ALSA, and gstreamer

[Craig Brooksby]

Hi all:

My Feisty box wouldn't do ALSA; I finally deleted .asoundrc (left in
my home directory from Edgy) and bingo.  No more OSS.  Hello ALSA.

So it was a problem of an old conf file interfering with me.

I still have one maddening problem from the Feisty install:  Sound
Juicer won't play or rip CDs properly.  It plays them, and rips them,
but I am hearing what sounds like unconverted raw bitstream --
horrible chirping noise.   I am able to play previously-ripped files;
I just can't rip any new ones.

I wonder if this is a similar problem -- an old conf file?  Anyway, if
anyone has any ideas, please chime in.

Craig



On 4/27/07, Craig Brooksby <craig.brooksby at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ubuntu always played nice with my mobo's sound chips, until Feisty.
> Now, it won't let me select ALSA under preferences, only OSS.  I am
> diving into /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base and other places I never wanted
> to go.
>
> Playing or ripping a CD (using juicer/gstreamer) results in chirping
> gibberish -- like raw modem chatter.   I am able to play
> previously-ripped .flac and .mp3s just fine (again, it's using OSS and
> not ALSA). Grrr.
>
> There are postings around the net that Feisty has troubles here.  I
> suspect that it is not detecting my chipset properly.  I'm a noob but
> trying to troubleshoot this.
>
> Just a heads up. -- Craig
>