techyTim » Ubuntu Tweaks http://blog.techytim.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:00:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ubuntu: No sound after suspend to RAM fix http://blog.techytim.com/2009/01/28/ubuntu-sound-fix/ http://blog.techytim.com/2009/01/28/ubuntu-sound-fix/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:18:00 +0000 techyTim http://blog.techytim.com/?p=123 The magic of open source software is evident every few days or so when the Ubuntu Update Manager notifies me of another round of bug fixes and/or security patches. Over this past winter break, I put a new motherboard (Foxconn M7VMX-K) in my computer and decided to test the “sleep” function. Since Ubuntu relies on community testing, hardware support can be a weakness and sleep did not work with my old mobo. However, I was excited to see that my computer properly slept and woke-up with this new motherboard… except for one problem. After waking up, the sound did not work! Frustrated, I did a Google search and found a thread on Launchpad (the Ubuntu bug tracking site) which seemed to describe the issue I was experiencing as well as a workaround. For anyone interested, the fix is to run the following commands after resuming:


pulseaudio -k
pulseaudio -D

A few weeks later I spotted an update to pulseaudio on update manager with the description “Add pm-utils sleep hook to suspend (and resume) users’ pulseaudio daemons”. That sounded promising so I quickly installed the update and put my computer to sleep. Sure enough, after waking it up the sound worked!

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Skype 1.4.0.118 Mixer Options

I’m using Skype for Linux 1.4.0.99 and I noticed that if I jostle my microphone, the capture volume will decrease. This is annoying because when I go to make a call, the other person won’t be able to hear me. I found a fix to avoid this auto-adjustment:

      First, close Skype if it’s running.
      In your home directory press Ctrl-H to show hidden folders.
      Find the .Skype folder and edit the shared.xml with a text editor.
      Find the subsection <lib> with a subsection <voiceeng>. In this subsection, add <agc>0</agc> to disable automatic microphone manipulation.

Here’s a screenshot of the modified shared.xml file:

shared.xml

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