Michael Lustfield proposed the following answer:
I would suggest filing a bug against this. You seem to have sufficient
data to conclude an actual bug as well as enough information to assist
the bug manager.
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Hello,
I have a strange sound problem with gcompris only. I'm losing my reputation in front of my kids because it was working, and then gcompris somehow lost almost all of its sounds, except for Tuxpaint, which is still chiming.
I installed an ubuntu hardy heron lts from scratch with 2.6.24-19-generic kernel, the newest that time. Everything worked flawlessly right out of the box, including sound as well, even with gcompris. Gcompris was configured with the sounds package of our language (Hungarian, if that matters.) Kids fell in love with the computer, mainly because of gcompris, and partially because the familiar voices to them.
I went forward to 2.6.24-21-server kernel (4GB RAM) but can boot up the old one anytime if you like for troubleshooting. I also accepted some recommended upgrade packages that bubbled up from time to time.
After a month of this kind of usage, sound suddenly disappeared from gcompris almost entirely, only TuxPaint held its sound from the gcompris package. And still, everything else has sound, I can play audio and video files, watch youtube movies in browser, etc. Problem is, I cannot pinpoint neither the exact package that broke this down, nor the exact date, since I'm not playing with gcompris. Kids reported the problem and started to complain about the lost sound.
User privileges are OK, sound settings OK (ALSA, btw), test sound can be heard on the config panel, all users incl. kids can hear sound from Tuxpaint and all the above applications, but not from the rest of gcompris. No sound even after completely reinstalling gcompris.
What did I/autoupdate mess up? No clue by browsing syslog, dmesg etc. The most frustrating it was working like a charm right from the first minute, and then broke down somehow.
Please help, thank in advance.
If you would know my kids, you also would cry for help on a forum. :)
Have a nice day,
Peter
Michael Lustfield proposed the following answer:
I would suggest filing a bug against this. You seem to have sufficient
data to conclude an actual bug as well as enough information to assist
the bug manager.
======
Hello,
I have a strange sound problem with gcompris only. I'm losing my reputation in front of my kids because it was working, and then gcompris somehow lost almost all of its sounds, except for Tuxpaint, which is still chiming.
I installed an ubuntu hardy heron lts from scratch with 2.6.24-19-generic kernel, the newest that time. Everything worked flawlessly right out of the box, including sound as well, even with gcompris. Gcompris was configured with the sounds package of our language (Hungarian, if that matters.) Kids fell in love with the computer, mainly because of gcompris, and partially because the familiar voices to them.
I went forward to 2.6.24-21-server kernel (4GB RAM) but can boot up the old one anytime if you like for troubleshooting. I also accepted some recommended upgrade packages that bubbled up from time to time.
After a month of this kind of usage, sound suddenly disappeared from gcompris almost entirely, only TuxPaint held its sound from the gcompris package. And still, everything else has sound, I can play audio and video files, watch youtube movies in browser, etc. Problem is, I cannot pinpoint neither the exact package that broke this down, nor the exact date, since I'm not playing with gcompris. Kids reported the problem and started to complain about the lost sound.
User privileges are OK, sound settings OK (ALSA, btw), test sound can be heard on the config panel, all users incl. kids can hear sound from Tuxpaint and all the above applications, but not from the rest of gcompris. No sound even after completely reinstalling gcompris.
What did I/autoupdate mess up? No clue by browsing syslog, dmesg etc. The most frustrating it was working like a charm right from the first minute, and then broke down somehow.
Please help, thank in advance.
If you would know my kids, you also would cry for help on a forum. :)
Have a nice day,
Peter
peter@princz:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
HDA ATI SB at 0xfe024000 irq 18
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfdffc000 irq 20 intel,snd_ pcm_oss intel,snd_ pcm oss,snd_ seq_midi dummy,snd_ seq_oss, snd_seq_ midi,snd_ seq_midi_ event snd_pcm, snd_seq dummy,snd_ seq_oss, snd_seq_ midi,snd_ rawmidi, snd_seq snd_hda_ intel,snd_ pcm_oss, snd_mixer_ oss,snd_ pcm,snd_ hwdep,snd_ seq_dummy, snd_seq_ oss,snd_ rawmidi, snd_seq, snd_timer, snd_seq_ device
0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
1 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
peter@princz:~$ uname -a
Linux princz 2.6.24-21-server #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 18:06:43 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
peter@princz:~$ lsmod | grep -i snd
snd_rtctimer 4640 0
snd_hda_intel 344728 5
snd_pcm_oss 42016 0
snd_mixer_oss 17792 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 78596 2 snd_hda_
snd_page_alloc 11528 2 snd_hda_
snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy 4868 0
snd_seq_oss 35456 0
snd_seq_midi 9248 0
snd_rawmidi 25632 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8320 2 snd_seq_
snd_seq 54096 6 snd_seq_
snd_timer 24836 3 snd_rtctimer,
snd_seq_device 9612 5 snd_seq_
snd 56868 22 snd_rtctimer,
soundcore 8800 1 snd
peter@princz:~$