<div dir="ltr">I think when people talk about mint, they really need to specify mint-ubuntu or mint-debian.<div style>With mint-debian you have rolling release. and mint-debian has no relation to ubuntu.</div><div style><br>
</div><div style>With respect to sound,</div><div style>I had issues 2-3 years ago with ubuntu, but i am using higher end sound card(s) with digital out, etc.</div><div style>Once i had to completely scrap the sound on ubuntu and build it up as OSS.</div>
<div style>but lately in last 2+ releases of LMDE (major installs, not incremental rolling), i have had no issue on 4+ systems I have installed it on, with various sound cards.</div><div style>For sound debuging:</div><div style>
make sure you have your volumes appropriate for the input and the master.</div><div style>There are options to make sure you switch to the desired type of input.</div><div style>Check your dmesg.</div><div style>ps ax|grep pulse</div>
<div style>is it running.</div><div style>kill pulse and start it up in a way to give you debug info.</div><div style>In my experience over the years, I agree, usually works, or doesn't, and when it doesn't you usually find google info about card model specific issues.</div>
<div style>Some cards are just down right problematic.</div><div style>I have a few USB sound "cards". it is helpful to connect one of those, just to see if it works right away, to help debug if its possibly a over all sound server </div>
<div style>issue or card model specific.</div><div style><br></div><div style>In checking sound on my main LMDE system, i noticed just now, i don't have the pulse UI server admin apps. i did before (ubuntu or early LMDE installs),</div>
<div style>so i went into package management and selected "paman" and that gives me the pulse manager. You may want to install that to help see at what level the issue</div><div style>is occurring. I have had in the past issue ranging from simply having the sound output in the wrong connector, to simply problematic card drivers.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>-tl</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:07 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I recently downloaded Mint KDE 64 bit into a Toshiba laptop. Seems to work<br>
fine, but I haven't explored all the features yet.<br>
<br>
I'd be interested in comments on Mint.<br>
<br>
Peter<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
> Any thoughts between Linux Mint Debian Edition and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?<br>
><br>
> After much suffering over the last year with an older machine running<br>
> Windows 7 I did two things:<br>
><br>
> 1. Picked up a very nice new Windows 8 machine (making my wife happy)<br>
> (and StartIsBack making me happy).<br>
><br>
> 2. With all the data backed up somewhere else, began a project to<br>
> rehabilitate the old machine.<br>
><br>
> Starting from scratch I installed Windows 7 and Linux Mint. New<br>
> software on old hardware solved nothing so the next step was a new<br>
> motherboard (Gigabyte with integrated everything) and processor (AMD<br>
> X4 something or other). This cured all of Windows 7's ills. The Linux<br>
> Mint Debian Edition partition mostly works nicely EXCEPT FOR SOUND.<br>
> I’ve been googling and poking at this problem without success. In one<br>
> of the posts I read, “In Linux, sound either works or it’ll drive you<br>
> crazy trying to make it work.”<br>
><br>
> I chose Linux Mint Debian Edition over Ubuntu even though I’ve been a<br>
> happy Ubuntu user since about 8.04 for a few reasons: DE is supposed<br>
> to be a bit lighter on the CPU than some other flavours; it’s a<br>
> rolling release so I hoped to avoid periodic reinstallations; and<br>
> there’s increasing criticism of arrogance and megalomania at Canonical<br>
> — the initials, interestingly, are MS. Yesterday evening I had the<br>
> bright (?) idea of trying a handy Ubuntu 12.04 LTS AMD 64-bit LiveCD.<br>
> Sound WORKS!<br>
><br>
> Which brings us back to the question: press on or go back?<br>
><br>
> This isn't a request for help with DE sound. I know there'd be shouts<br>
> of "Not the place for that!" (Of course, if someone has universal and<br>
> foolproof solution to my problems I'm all ears.) But I thought it<br>
> might be worth sounding out (sorry!) the group on the relative merits<br>
> of Ubuntu, Linux Mint Debian Edition or other editions, or other Linux<br>
> flavours for someone who is not scared of the command line and editing<br>
> configuration files but whose Linux knowledge is not deep.<br>
><br>
> (Also with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS at end-of-life in a few days, there are a<br>
> few other machines for which I need to pick a migration path sometime<br>
> soon.)<br>
><br>
> Thanks.<br>
><br>
><br>
> John Martin<br>
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