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[Amos Blanton <amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kent,

Thanks!
Sound playback works fine with the Scratch debian package because it's using
the pulseaudio plugin (and an old version of the squeak-vm). Sound recording
has the same problem you mention. Derek O'Connell is working on a fix, but
we haven't heard from him in a while.

-Amos

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Kent Tong <freemant2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Sound playback is working fine, but recording quality is poor (quite
> some delay and some noise). But as people can always record outside
> Scratch (eg, using gnome-sound-recorder), this is not a show stopper.
>
>
> --
> Author of books for learning CXF, Axis2, Wicket, JSF (
> http://www.agileskills2.org)
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* John Maloney <jmaloney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> *To:* Kent Tong <freemant2000@xxxxxxxxx>
> *Cc:* linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Fri, January 1, 2010 9:46:19 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: Installation instructions for MIT Scratch on Ubuntu 9.10
>
> Hi, Kent.
>
> Thank you. This *is* very useful, especially the instructions on what you
> need to get to compile the UnicodePlugin.
>
> How is the sound working? Does recording work? We've been having trouble
> with the switch from ALSA to Pulse Audio, but I believe the Squeak
> maintainers were working on that so perhaps the latest Squeak fixes it...
>
> We are working on a package for Ubuntu 9.10.
>
>     -- John
>
> On Jan 1, 2010, at 1:58 AM, Kent Tong wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > As the .deb package isn't working for me (Kubuntu 9.10), I've
> > got it installed manually:
> > http://agileskills2.org/blog/2010/01/installing_mit_scratch_on_ubun.html
> >
> > Hope this info may be useful to some people out there.
> >
> > --
> > Author of books for learning CXF, Axis2, Wicket, JSF (
> http://www.agileskills2.org)
> >
> >
>
>


-- 
_____
Amos