[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2020-05-05 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for alsa-driver (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: alsa-driver (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2020-03-05 Thread Marcus Tomlinson
This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know. ** Changed in: alsa-driver (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu B

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2012-10-07 Thread Michael Andersen
I am also getting this on Precise: audio looping and little black holes in responsiveness. Like with ubuLinux above, I get UI lockups for a split second and my PC is an i7 3930K with 32G of RAM and the OS installed on SSD's so it is definitely _not_ a lack of available resources. I have also trie

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2012-07-13 Thread ubuLinux
Same issue here, this effects *all* streaming video and audio, but also from files played locally. I noticed also that when the choppiness occurs the whole UI is affected meaning the responsiveness drops. If I am typing the typing is delayed by a second, if I am moving windows there is also a d

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2012-07-01 Thread hornetster
Believe I have the same problem - 12.04 x64. Sound is pulsing media apps (Have tried VLS/Kaffeine/Rhythmbox). Has only been happening for the last couple of days - was fine before. Have tried the fix suggested (Turning off PulseAudio timer scheduling). REALLY annoying - am going back to Suse until

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2012-07-01 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: alsa-driver (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1008177 Title:

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2012-06-19 Thread David Harmon
Aha!: I tried "Turning off PulseAudio timer scheduling" from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/PositionReporting . Now sound appears normal in all three programs mentioned. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2012-06-14 Thread David Harmon
I tried installing pavucontrol, which doesn't seem to change anything. I'm now using"ubuntu-bug audio", which is producing a pulseaudio bug, #Bug #1013445. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2012-06-14 Thread David Harmon
Nope, didn't fix anything. I'm stumped again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1008177 Title: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10 To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2012-06-14 Thread David Harmon
I just read https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa- driver/+bug/1007783 and tried disabling Pulseaudio with Michael Lazarev's method: touch ~/.pulse-a11y-nostart echo autospawn = no|tee -a ~/.pulse/client.conf killall pulseaudio That got me no sound at all, in smplayer, banshee, or minecr

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2012-06-05 Thread David Harmon
11.10 promptly *stopped* producing any sound at all. I tried replacing the upgrade with a fresh install, to no avail. After about the 6th or 8th popup "suggestion", I upgraded to 12.01, and now it's back to glitchy sound with the same settings. (At least the sound-settings panel is somewhat impr

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2012-06-03 Thread David Harmon
(That is, I have *no* sound in smplayer or Minecraft (which is Java- based). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1008177 Title: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10 To manage n

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2012-06-03 Thread David Harmon
More information: After the previous experiments (but going back to 3.0.0-20 kernel), I have ululating sound in Firefox (e.g., Youtube) but not smplayer or MineCraft. Banshee dies on startup in a flurry of error messages. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2012-06-03 Thread David Harmon
In desperation, I unstalled the earlier linux image, and set GRUB to boot from it... no change. Startup sound is still glitched. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1008177 Title: glitchy

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2012-06-03 Thread David Harmon
OK, I got the PPA installed, byut trying to get the modules got: E: Unable to locate package linux-alsa-driver-modules-3.0.0-20-generic E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-alsa-driver-modules-3.0.0-20-generic' looking in Synaptic, I see that the latest version is 3.0.0.15-generic, Tryin

[Bug 1008177] Re: glitchy (pulsing) sound on Alienware box, 11.10

2012-06-03 Thread David Harmon
Adding the ALSA-dev ppa manually resulted in no upgrades after a reload. Trying to do it from the command line gave me: File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 88, in ppa_info = get_ppa_info_from_lp(user, ppa_name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 8