Questions Tagged With sound

USB Soundcard with stereo input & output

varunsrin — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 04:20:54 -0400

I'm looking for a USB sound card, that meets the following criteria:

Has decent Linux driver compat
Has a stereo line-in and stereo line-out (most cards have a mono line-in for mics)
Is small (usb thumb drive size preferably)
Doesn't alter or process the sound (e.g. THX enhancements)

Right now, the only devices I've found are:

http://www.cooldrives.com/usb20auadbox.html [ a little too large for what I want]

http://www.amazon.com/electronics/dp/B0044DEDC0 [not sure if it supports Linux, and seems to modify the signal]

Thanks in advance if anyone has experience with this - haven't had much luck searching for it online.

How to get back the speaker sound in Arch Linux?

unixbhaskar — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:01:12 -0400

I have lost my laptop speaker sound in Arch Linux..but with the headphone in the sound is fine.Kindly suggest how to get back the laptop sound..as well as should not loose the headphone sound too.

There is no sound

Elad Lending — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:28:52 -0400

Even though when I use Windows 7 Starter OS, there's no problem. Any ideas why? (And no, it's not muted!)

What software will multiplex sound inputs?

codebunny — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:58:10 -0400

My computer has one of those crappy sound cards that only takes input from one source. I run fvwm2. I play music all the time. If I browse to a website that plays sounds, like YouTube, then no sound comes out from my browser, and then Firefox locks up tight. I have to kill the individual firefox processes and restart it.

KDE and (I think) Gnome have some lowlevel software that acts as a sound multiplexor. It sits above the crappy sound card and allows multiple sound inputs. What is this software? Can I use it without using KDE?

EDIT: At the low end, I am using ALSA for sound. At any given time, there are only two programs that are going to play sound - one is mplayer and one is Firefox. I think both these programs are trying to get sole ownership of /dev/dsp to play sound. Are there settings that will cause mplayer and Firefox to pass the sound to some underlying device that will multiplex the sound? Arts? Esound? PulseAudio?

Firefox is using mplayer as a plugin to play audio. Is there a way to configure the mplayer plugin so it doesn't go directly to /dev/dsp but to the multiplexor?And is there some configuration for mplayer on the command line that would pass the sound to the same thing?

Howto enable sound for Gwibber, Empathy and MeMenu in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynix?

abgalphabet 1 — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:12:46 -0400

I did what this link told: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1194501 however, the sound doesn't come out. Is there any other way to configure the sound? I use fujitsu S6420 notebook.