Waiting For Sound System to Respond Lucid Lynx

**lilychef** · June 22nd, 2010

I'm right there with couzin2000, except headphones work fine... As I've said in my other threads, this happened immediately after an UPDATE to Lucid... It worked like a CHARM right after I Upgraded....but the update definitely screwed thing up... I finally had sutrround sound after three previous Ubuntu versions without it! Sound works fine now in Totem, VLC, flash, etc, but I cannot access the sound preferences menu or use volume control.... "Waiting for sound system to respond".... Surely this a bug? I just keep waiting for another update to come out that fixes it... No logical explanation for it to work then not work like that... Does Ubuntu not have moderators/developers who monitor these forums?

**lidex** · June 25th, 2010

Originally Posted by couzin2000

It would help me to know why I would be removing these files... for now, I HAVE audio - I wanna ensure I'm keeping it!

That just removes configuration files, which has been an issue of late with cruft remaining on an update. Also I would check permissions of home/user folders.

**lilychef** · June 26th, 2010

Originally Posted by lidex

That just removes configuration files, which has been an issue of late with cruft remaining on an update. Also I would check permissions of home/user folders.

Uh.... What's "cruft"? And didn't I just post that this problem started with an update? Ain't no way in hell I'm going to mess with code unless I know it's going to fix the problem and reverse whatever was messed up by the update in the first place.... I have neither the time nor the energy to reinstall Ubuntu... I sure wish there were active developers on hand monitoring the forums.... Much of the suggestions found here are vague, ambiguous, or open-ended....

**couzin2000** · June 27th, 2010

Same thing here, lilychef, too vague for me. I have everything running properly - I'm looking at Pulseaudio monitoring, everything works great - except now I get no sound through the HDMI,*and get the same problematic crap through the headphone jack.

Can someone PLEASE point me to the right direction? Need any info, like ls | grep audio or something like that? Help us out here, this is ridiculous. I'd love to finally watch movies on my plasma tv!

**lilychef** · June 27th, 2010

Now I'm getting sporadic functionality. Flash and streaming works, but not my regular MP3's!! UGH!! This happened suddenly and not after a reboot. What's so ridiculous is that I had such an AWESOME sound system with full control of my speakers, etc. when I first upgraded to Lucid, and now it's gone! That's just NOT RIGHT. I'm going to try to keep this thread open until somebody comes along with a fix.

Oh - and did I mention that when the problem first appeared, all system sounds disappeared? Is that a clue? Couzin2000 - are you getting system sounds?

**couzin2000** · June 28th, 2010

Yes, I do have system sounds, though they are turned off. I turn them off systematically every time I reinstall, as it just gobbles up more CPU cycles.

Now, for no reason I can understand (as I've made no modifications to my last know config), I'm getting no sound through the HDMI.

When I look into Pulseaudio I can see the VUmeters and I AM getting signal - I checked out absolutely everything, and the only thing I can think of is that there is a switch somewhere in this software that I'm not getting at.

Again, more help needed, perhaps by a developer or someone who truly know his way around all this?