[altusmetrum] Linux problems

[Bruce E. Harris]

Still no sound. I tried pulseaudio kill and disable, even rebooted, no luck.
Yes, Kubutu uses pulseaudio like Ubuntu. The only difference is window 
manager, Kubuntu used KDE and Ubuntu used gnome. In fact when I got to 
Kubuntu's website for packages or information, often I am redirected to 
Ubuntu's website.

Everything else seems to work just find, just no sound.

THanks

Bruce


On 02/06/2011 09:58 PM, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:38:52 -0500, "Bruce E. Harris"<bruce_san at verizon.net>  wrote:
>
>> So I got
>> http://www.altusmetrum.org/AltOS/releases/0.9/Altos-Linux-0.9.tar.bz2
>>
>> I unpacked and left in my home directory, limited luck, the moved it to
>> root.
>> ao-list does not work. Sound does not work. I get limited and unreliable
>> connectivity between TeleMetrum and TeleDongle.
> You shouldn't need to move it anywhere; altosui should work in place.
>
> Sound troubles are likely caused by pulseaudio, which doesn't play well
> with java. The only way I've found to disable this on ubuntu is to make
> the daemon not executable:
>
> # chmod -x /usr/bin/pulseaudio
>
> Then kill it
>
> # killall pulseaudio
>
> and now it shouldn't be able to restart.
>
>> I am use to apt-get and installing from source, ./configure, make make
>> install. But this install has me baffled.
> I'd hope you wouldn't need this given the distribution-independent
> package. The java code should work on pretty much any Linux distribution.
>