Yesterday I upgraded to Ubuntu Jaunty, and I’m suffering (again!) sound problems with Pulseaudio. This is frustraing, at best, because I needed some time to research and fix the same problem with Intrepid (previous release).
Now seems the fix I used for Intrepid (tweaking damon.conf file to have my laptop play music without annoying noises) isn’t working with Jaunty, so I must start researching again (or don’t listen to music… or uninstall the damn Pulseaudio thing).
I’ve used Pulseaudio features since it worked 100%, I like the idea behind it, but I think it’s a very big issue that Ubuntu fails on sound every release because of this.
Dear Ubuntu fellas: please, don’t make it default until it works out of the box on most hardware out there.
Update: there’s a bug report.
One weak point of Foresight Linux is the almost inexistent documentation. Add to this fact a very bad searching feature in the package manager, and you got it: it’s hard to find how to play a simple MP3 with Banshee.
May be it’s because I’m used to aptitude and the high standards of the Ubuntu’s documentation, but every time I need to install something with conary… it’s a nightmare.
After some googling I’ve realized that the gstreamer plugins are packaged as gst-plugin-* (you won’t find them searching for gstreamer plugin
; d’oh!). With following command, you’ll be able to play MP3 files:
$ sudo conary update gst-plugins-ugly
I’ve recommended Foresight Linux Mobile to some notebook users, but I’m starting to think Foresight Linux isn’t ready yet.
Update: I’ve added an entry in the FAQ.
