Category Archives: PulseAudio

Pulseaudio conference – less than a month away!

Posted on 2012-10-04 by David Henningsson

The first PulseAudio conference is approaching quickly. This is a shoutout for people who might be interested, but missed the mailinglist announcement. The conference will be Friday 2nd November 2012, and colocated with Ubuntu Developer Summit and Linaro Connect, in … Continue reading →

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Top five wrong ways to fix your audio

Posted on 2012-07-13 by David Henningsson

The audio stack in Linux/Ubuntu evolves over time. What used to be good advice is not necessarily good advice anymore. (That also means, that if you happen to read this blog post in 2019 or something, don’t trust it!) Here … Continue reading →

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Three audio bugs that need your hardware info

Posted on 2012-05-22 by David Henningsson

Are you: Missing speakers or internal mic in sound settings? Seeing a S/PDIF device show up for your USB device? Having no or extremely low sound from your internal microphone? If so, I might need your help to be able … Continue reading →

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Audio over HDMI and DisplayPort in Ubuntu 12.04

Posted on 2012-04-14 by David Henningsson

Ok, for those of you who just want it up and working, I’m including a quickstart section before we dive into the details: Quickstart 1) If you have an ATI/AMD or NVidia card, you need proprietary drivers. 2) You need … Continue reading →

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Audio debugging techniques

Posted on 2011-12-08 by David Henningsson

As a part of the Ubuntu Hardware Summit, I held a presentation on the topic “audio debugging techniques”, focused on HDA Intel cards. I also wrote down some notes for some of those slides. I share the slides and the … Continue reading →

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Independent volume for headphones and speakers

Posted on 2011-09-29 by David Henningsson

If you take Ubuntu Brainstorm’s word for it, one of the more popular wishes for Ubuntu, is to avoid having to adjust the volume slider up and down as you plug and unplug your headphones, but instead keep separate volumes … Continue reading →

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PulseAudio with jack detection

Posted on 2011-09-06 by David Henningsson

Jack detection in PulseAudio is now in Ubuntu 11.10. This means that PulseAudio will know whether you have plugged in your headphones, mic or HDMI cable, and be able to use that information. Most computers have automute already (i e, … Continue reading →

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