At some point, Ubuntu threw pulseaudio in the mix (says the guy who spent an hour reconfiguring sound on 12.x after he accidentally unplugged the usb external sound card & auto-re-config broke sound). Good luck. Sound really should be a solved problem by now. Thomas On Mar 25, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > There actually isn't/wasn't an /etc/asound.conf... that was one of the annoying parts. > > I'll have a look at that link. > > I kinda wonder if maybe alsa isn't the Top Dog in sound anymore. > > On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Jeremy MountainJohnson wrote: > >> Did you also copy over /etc/asound.conf (or where ever Ubuntu stores >> the global ALSA config file)? >> >> Hate to lead you to other distro territory for this, but it could help: >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#Upmixing.2FDownmixing >> >> -- >> Jeremy MountainJohnson >> Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: >>> Ok folks, it's "Alsa Is Driving Me Crazy YET AGAIN" time. >>> >>> My media center computer's SSD (which is ancient and crappy) is thinking >>> about dying, and I wanted some different software on there (DOWNgrading >>> MythTV to 0.24, in fact) so perfect time to throw a new drive in there and >>> start from scratch since I have a backup. >>> >>> Now I can't get sound to work right. >>> >>> These are both Ubuntu systems, the new one is 12.10, the old one, uh. >>> Probably 12.04 via updates. >>> >>> I... remember going through a lot of trouble to get alsa to work correctly >>> in the first place, including giving m full surround sound etc. Now the >>> thing doesn't even show I have the surround channels. >>> >>> Here's the thing. I copied over .asoundrc. I even copied over all of >>> /usr/share/alsa from the previous installation. Still nothing. At one point >>> I managed to get SOME surround sound but the channels were a mess... >>> >>> Anyway, before I go looking for an alsa-list with it's crazy amount of >>> unhelpful snark, I figured I'd throw it on here. >>> >>> Does anyone know exactly what I need to copy from the old installation to >>> make it so alsa has the exact same configuration? >>> >>> >>> TIA! >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list