Questions tagged [oss-sound-system]

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How to fix sound in wolfenstein Enemy Territory

I installed wolf:et, and i cant get sound to work. Everything that i have installed is in default paths, i had 10.4 and then upgraded to 10.10 via software update gui. I had sound working in 10.04 with method under 2. I have tried following killall…
grizwako
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Indicator applet and sound manager for OSS sound system

Alsa wasn't functioning well on my laptop. The open source OSS sound system also failed to install. So I installed the closed source version of OSS and it is working fine. But the volume indicator applet in the system tray disappeared after…
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Sound is Jerky, choppy and distorted in Ubuntu 12.10

I am using Ubuntu 12.10 and I am getting jerky sound. The sound works perfectly in Windows 7 so it is not a hardware issue. I am using a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value sound card with a 5.1 speaker setup. This also does not seem to be a…
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How to use OSS instead of PulseAudio?

Sound was working fine with PulseAudio, but I installed something in order to try to get xawtv to work, but that just caused the audio to stop working. So I tried to install some packages to get OSS to work, because I read that OSS is better than…
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Linphone - Only default sound device available?

First of al.. Linphone is the first (and only) VOIP client i found so far that is free.. looks decent AND most importand: it doesn't crash (ekiga - crashes randomly lol). I use softphone for business (duo to me being in china and the phone number…
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How to change sound driver? (pulse -> oss)

I think Ubuntu is set by default to use pulse audio driver. How do I change to OSS? Some softwares that I am using only allow this type of sound driver to use corectly the sound system. Thank you for any advice.
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Unable to control volume using keyboard button on Dell Inspiron N5010

After recent update I am not able to change the volume using the keyboard button. It used to work fine earlier but not anymore. All other buttons (Play/Pause, Brightness, Wireless-Enable/Disable etc) work fine. Moreover there is speaker in the…
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