press on or go back?

[ted leslie]

I think when people talk about mint, they really need to specify
mint-ubuntu or mint-debian.
With mint-debian you have rolling release. and mint-debian has no relation
to ubuntu.

With respect to sound,
I had issues 2-3 years ago with ubuntu, but i am using higher end sound
card(s) with digital out, etc.
Once i had to completely scrap the sound on ubuntu and build it up as OSS.
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.
For sound debuging:
make sure you have your volumes appropriate for the input and the master.
There are options to make sure you switch to the desired type of input.
Check your dmesg.
ps ax|grep pulse
is it running.
kill pulse and start it up in a way to give you debug info.
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.
Some cards are just down right problematic.
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
issue or card model specific.

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),
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
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.

-tl


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:07 PM, <phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I recently downloaded Mint KDE 64 bit into a Toshiba laptop. Seems to work
> fine, but I haven't explored all the features yet.
>
> I'd be interested in comments on Mint.
>
> Peter
>
>
> > Any thoughts between Linux Mint Debian Edition and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
> >
> > After much suffering over the last year with an older machine running
> > Windows 7 I did two things:
> >
> > 1. Picked up a very nice new Windows 8 machine (making my wife happy)
> > (and StartIsBack making me happy).
> >
> > 2. With all the data backed up somewhere else, began a project to
> > rehabilitate the old machine.
> >
> > Starting from scratch I installed Windows 7 and Linux Mint. New
> > software on old hardware solved nothing so the next step was a new
> > motherboard (Gigabyte with integrated everything) and processor (AMD
> > X4 something or other). This cured all of Windows 7's ills. The Linux
> > Mint Debian Edition partition mostly works nicely EXCEPT FOR SOUND.
> > I’ve been googling and poking at this problem without success. In one
> > of the posts I read, “In Linux, sound either works or it’ll drive you
> > crazy trying to make it work.”
> >
> > I chose Linux Mint Debian Edition over Ubuntu even though I’ve been a
> > happy Ubuntu user since about 8.04 for a few reasons: DE is supposed
> > to be a bit lighter on the CPU than some other flavours; it’s a
> > rolling release so I hoped to avoid periodic reinstallations; and
> > there’s increasing criticism of arrogance and megalomania at Canonical
> > — the initials, interestingly, are MS. Yesterday evening I had the
> > bright (?) idea of trying a handy Ubuntu 12.04 LTS AMD 64-bit LiveCD.
> > Sound WORKS!
> >
> > Which brings us back to the question: press on or go back?
> >
> > This isn't a request for help with DE sound. I know there'd be shouts
> > of "Not the place for that!" (Of course, if someone has universal and
> > foolproof solution to my problems I'm all ears.) But I thought it
> > might be worth sounding out (sorry!) the group on the relative merits
> > of Ubuntu, Linux Mint Debian Edition or other editions, or other Linux
> > flavours for someone who is not scared of the command line and editing
> > configuration files but whose Linux knowledge is not deep.
> >
> > (Also with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS at end-of-life in a few days, there are a
> > few other machines for which I need to pick a migration path sometime
> > soon.)
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > John Martin
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