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Re: Lubuntu 14.04 Beta Testing

 

Hi Aere,
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Best regards
Nio

2014-04-09 00:03, Aere Greenway skrev:
> On 04/08/2014 01:18 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> 1. Does it work for you with UXA acceleration (for graphics and video)
>> according to this method?
>>
>> Edit (or create) /etc/X11/xorg.conf as follows: (ugh, can't format,
>> should be a tab before each line except the first and the last).
>>
>> Section "Device"
>>     Identifier "Intel Graphics"
>>     Driver "intel"
>>     Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Restart X (reboot, restart your display manager, whatever). Colors are
>> back to the way they used to be and flash works.
>>
>> 2. The problem with audio is new to me. If you have the time, please
>> report it as a bug at launchpad.
> #1: Creating the indicated file in the specified directory, with the
> specified content did not appear to change anything.  I double and
> triple checked the content.

I see. What specs can you find for this graphics chip/card? (I had
better luck with my old computers.)

> #2: After installing, and even after rebooting, I did not get any
> sound.  Actually, if I turned the volume all the way up, I would get
> very faint (soft) sound.
> 
> I tried right-clicking on the speaker icon in the task-bar, and it
> yielded an old-style GUI, and it appeared the wrong sound-card was
> selected (the internal one, rather than the Soundblaster).  But my
> attempts to select the correct sound-card using the GUI were not
> successful.
> 
> In the past, the internal (ICH) sound-card is disabled in the BIOS
> setup, and it was not visible to the system, but it is visible now,
> despite not having changed the BIOS setup.
> 
> Changing the volume levels on the GUI also didn't fix anything.
> 
> The only thing that fixed it, was when I download PulseAudio and
> PavuControl, and in PavuControl, I selected the proper sound card. I
> learned this installing on my other (450 megahertz) machine.
> 
> Lubuntu uses ALSA (not PulseAudio) initially.  Once I changed over to
> PulseAudio, sound started working.  That was probably why sound started
> working on my other system after reboot.  I had also installed
> PulseAudio and PavuControl before rebooting.
> 
I'm glad the 'old tweak' with pulseaudio & pavucontrol still works :-)


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