Comments on: Getting Sound Working Properly on Ubuntu 8.10

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:44:28 +0000

Thanks a lot for this. I have been trying repeatedly for months and this is the only post who solved to problem instead of making it worse. Perfect!

By: Nishant

Nishant — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:28:54 +0000

For me just killing the pulseaudio process did the wonder. Sound was fine on firefox but it was not working on any media player. After killing pulseaudio everything was sane again . Thanks a lot for this wonderful tip.

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Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:35:19 +0000

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By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:36:55 +0000

it works fine!

Thanks.

By: Frank Sandor

Frank Sandor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:58:35 +0000

I am running Ubuntu 9.04 and the sound works fine; however, when I use Terminal Services it was not pulling the sound from the remote server. This solution worked great. I just applied the solution, logged out of the terminal server, then back in & the sound worked. Thanks.

By: Carlos Aguillon

Carlos Aguillon — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:48:18 +0000

Congratulation Mattias Hellborg Arthursson, Thanks for help to the community, sorry for my english, but to tell you the true Im salvadorean and I had problems to find this beautifull solution in Spanish over the google, almost. Thanks for all. !!It worked!!, I will redirect people to your blog. Gracias Mattias, Gracias Google.
Saludos from El Salvador

By: harish

harish — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:59:36 +0000

killall pulseaudio
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install esound esound-clients libao2
sudo rm /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio

.. for them who stil cannot hear the sound after run this steps in terminal , jus go to the small volume control icon , on right top conner of the screen ,click it and select “open volume control”… then select switches and uncheck the headphone… this should make it work

By: rituka

rituka — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:39:30 +0000

after the the above command it is saying
pulseaudio: no process killed
help me my ubuntu sound is not coming ,
it started when a few days ago my system was running short of battery and i opened it ,it said it cannot recognize the battery .then some system check occured,i was afraid and swiched off the main button.
i think alsa is corrupted .
can u solve the problem please.thanks

By: slabounty

slabounty — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:05:13 +0000

Thanks! Worked like a charm.

By: Saravana

Saravana — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:45:20 +0000

Awesome!!! I dint try anything else as all other posts seemed to be beating around the bush and I dint want to mess things up. Thanks for these easy-tofollow steps.

By: Chris Cpnn

Chris Cpnn — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:33:34 +0000

Thank you very much for this fix. I have tried several and
this is the first that worked!

By: Tundro Walker

Tundro Walker — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:02:36 +0000

Sara, the “killall pulseaudio”, etc stuff has to be run from a command-line terminal.

If you go to “Apps/Start > Accessories >Terminal”, it’ll open up a command line terminal. To get it to work as he typed it, you’d have to copy/paste each line separately into your command-line and execute them one-by one.

However, in Unix/Linux command-line, you can “batch” commands together using ; or &&.


sudo killall pulseaudio && sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio && sudo apt-get install esound esound-clients libao2 && sudo rm /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio

If you copy/paste the above (all the commands batched using &&) as a single-line into your command-line prompt, you should be able to do it all in one felled swoop. When pasting things into a command-line terminal, though, you have to right-click on the terminal and select “paste”. It’s the 21st century, but the still haven’t implemented CTRL+V shortcut to paste in command-line terminals for some reason.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:28:18 +0000

Thanks for the fix. I was having the problem as well and it’s now fixed. I am not sure why the pulseaudio wasn’t configured better for the Intrepid Ibex release. Hopefully they will iron out that issue in Jaunty Jackalope (9.04). But as for now, my sound is working awesome on all my apps. Thanks again!

By: sara

sara — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:46:27 +0000

what!???
what is all this stuff:
killall pulseaudio
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install esound esound-clients libao2
sudo rm /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio

idk what to do with that…….what the heck is it!?????????

By: tony

tony — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:15:18 +0000

Yet another satisfied customer. Thanks for the quick ‘n’ easy fix!

By: worked!

worked! — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:05:59 +0000

Sound was being flakey for me too since I upgraded my desktop to 8.10. I tried your procedure just now and it worked. Thanks!

By: ubuntu-man

ubuntu-man — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:09:17 +0000

Great! Now the sound works perfectly on my Dell Precision M6300.

By: thankful

thankful — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:27:56 +0000

thank you o mighty one you have saved my live i am forever in your debt

By: blog.ecorrado.us » Ubuntu 8.10 Sound issues solved

blog.ecorrado.us » Ubuntu 8.10 Sound issues solved — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:09:30 +0000

[...] on my MacBook Pro. Turns out the fix was pretty easy once I found out what to do. It was simply to remove the offending pulseaudio and replace it with esound as described here. I also checked out the thread on the Ubuntu Forums where Mattias Hellborg Arthursson (the owner of [...]