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The only probs I have had with Audio on Mint is after I installed Skype! The line in for recording did not map using pulse and was only cured after uninstalling Skype. On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 11:55 +0000, George wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 08:22 +0000, Simon Waters wrote: > > On 08/02/11 07:54, tom wrote: > > > > > > Hearing some reports about audio being borked in squeeze - anyone? > > > > Not heard anything, Google says nothing since 2010 when Squeeze got the > > fix for Intel sound cards (well it was testing back then for a reason). > > So where are you hearing these rumours? > > > > I run, quote "Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a rolling distribution > based on Debian Testing" and I've had a strange audio problem. I have 2 > nearly identical PC's based on AMD Athlon 64's, both with Mint Debian. > One ran audio perfectly on every app but the other would run sound on > Gnome Mplayer but not on Rhythmbox, Movie Player, Mplayer or Flash in > the browser. The difference seemed to be in Pulse Audio which on the > good computer recognised the sound card but on the other didn't. The > bad sound card (surprise, surprise) was an onboard Intel HDA SBx00 > Azalia. I disabled it and tried 3 other sound cards but Real Audio > didn't see any of them. They were all being recognised by the kernel at > boot but not being passed to Pulse Audio. I eventually bit the bullet > and re-installed Mint Debian with a CM8378 Analog Stereo card and > everything works fine. (From my choice of cards you may deduce I'm not > into Hi Fi quality) > > I did a lot of googling but couldn't find anything on how to get Pulse > Audio to look for a sound card. There was a lot on how Pulse Audio > "just works". And I decided that life was too short to find out how to > trawl through the boot sequence to find the problem. > > I've been running this version of Debian with Gnome for about 3 weeks > now (it only came out at Christmas) and it seems good. I may try it > with other desk tops when I get time. Like David, I was driven away > from Mepis by KDE4, yet until then I swore I wouldn't touch Gnome. > > George > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq