Ububtu 8.04 Sound Problem

[Jim March]

Sorry I hadn't quite finished.

I did a reinstall of Intrepid once it went gold, and sound "worked".
By that I mean, yeah, everything technically works but there's an ugly
background hiss out the headphones.  I'm starting to wonder if OSS4
isn't worth trying again.

We're all used to the idea of swapping out modules we don't like for
those we do: Wicd can replace Network Manager, KDE over Gnome, etc.
Same goes for sound...

Jim

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding Intel sound failing in Hardy:
>
> During the beta-test process for Intrepid, the drivers for Intel sound
> on my lappy broke *bigtime*.  Weird errors, like when you plug
> headphones in the sound would fade out over a period of about 10
> seconds, and then vanish no matter what
> speakers/headphone/port/plugged-in-or-not I was doing.
>
> Drove me bonkers.
>
> Everybody was blaming Pulseaudio when in fact it was the core ALSA
> setup blown to hell and gone.
>
> I finally ripped out the entire Pulse/ALSA stack and swapped in OSS4.1
> and dayum if that didn't work pretty sweet.  Incredibly detailed
> mixer, clean sound, full app compatibility.
>
> The links involved:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSound
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5909858
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=b3c3276c9433db20e3795a53fba28069&t=780961
>
> http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=5 - gives background on the
> history of this stuff...
>