Can only get audio sometimes. I think it is firefox problem

Asked by Pat

I can only get audio on random occasions. Sometime I can listen to Pandora Radio. Sometimes not.
Sometimes I hear LastFm radio. Sometimes nothing at all. Sometimes I can hear a YouTube video and sometimes not.
There is no rhyme or reason to this problem. For a while I was able to get around this by clicking on a known link
for a certain YouTube video that I knew for sure had sound. Then miraculously, I could get sound on LastFm.
Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix?
I have Kubuntu.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

Can you give the output of:

wget -O alsa-info.sh http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && bash ./alsa-info.sh

Thanks

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Pat (usa104) said :
#2

I would gladly do as you have asked, but I do not know how to find a terminal on Kubuntu.
Thank you for kind reply

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Your question #160396 on firefox in Ubuntu changed:
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    Status: Open =&gt; Needs information

actionparsnip requested more information:
Can you give the output of:

wget -O alsa-info.sh http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh &amp;&amp; bash
./alsa-info.sh

Thanks

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Pat (usa104) said :
#3

Ok action....I found the terminal. But this is all I got back........did I enter the info wrong?

liz@Lawrence:~$
liz@Lawrence:~$ wget -O alsa-info.sh http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh &amp;&amp; bash
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;&amp;&#39;
liz@Lawrence:~$ ./alsa-info.sh

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Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Question #160396]: Can only get audio someimes. I think it is firefox problem

Your question #160396 on firefox in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/160396

    Status: Needs information =&gt; Open

You gave more information on the question:
I would gladly do as you have asked, but I do not know how to find a terminal on Kubuntu.
Thank you for kind reply

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Sent: Monday, June 6, 2011 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Question #160396]: Can only get audio someimes. I think it is firefox problem

Your question #160396 on firefox in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/160396

    Status: Open =&amp;gt; Needs information

actionparsnip requested more information:
Can you give the output of:

wget -O alsa-info.sh http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh &amp;&amp; bash
./alsa-info.sh

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#4

Press CTRL+ALT+T and it will run

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Pat (usa104) said :
#5

-Get:0
-PostGet:1
-Get:0
-PostGet:370
--PostLoadExtraBody:368
-OMMessageInDOM:8
-postRender:2

Darla Event:messagelist =&gt; Request Timeout Occurred
Browser-measured Navigation Timings

RoundTrip Data

spaceId: 978500274

Total Launch and Module Sizes

Launch

size: 737.07KB
gzipped: 174.40KB

Neo Modules

size: 1165.79KB
gzipped: 447.90KB

Intl Modules
To actionparsnip
I pressed CTRL+ALT+T. And this what appeared.
Does this help?

size: 8594.10KB
gzipped: 2129.17KB

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Your question #160396 on firefox in Ubuntu changed:
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actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
Press CTRL+ALT+T and it will run

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Pat (usa104) said :
#6

I can only get audio on random occasions. Sometime I can listen to Pandora Radio. Sometimes not.
Sometimes I hear LastFm radio. Sometimes nothing at all. Sometimes I can hear a YouTube video and sometimes not.
There is no rhyme or reason to this problem. For a while I was able to get around this by clicking on a known link
for a certain YouTube video that I knew for sure had sound. Then miraculously, I could get sound on LastFm.
Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix?
I have Kubuntu.

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Pat (usa104) said :
#7

Please do not mark this question as answered. It has not been answered yet.
The problem is still the same. I have found how to get a terminal on Kubuntu.
I can input data commands that you require to find problem.

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Pat (usa104) said :
#8

liz@Lawrence:~$ wget -O alsa-info.sh http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && bash ./alsa-info.sh
--2011-06-09 09:08:39-- http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
Resolving alsa-project.org... 77.48.224.243
Connecting to alsa-project.org|77.48.224.243|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-driver.git;a=blob_plain;f=utils/alsa-info.sh [following]
--2011-06-09 09:08:49-- http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-driver.git;a=blob_plain;f=utils/alsa-info.sh
Resolving git.alsa-project.org... 77.48.224.243
Reusing existing connection to alsa-project.org:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/plain]
Saving to: `alsa-info.sh'

    [ <=> ] 27,247 47.7K/s in 0.6s

2011-06-09 09:08:55 (47.7 KB/s) - `alsa-info.sh' saved [27247]

ALSA Information Script v 0.4.60
--------------------------------

This script visits the following commands/files to collect diagnostic
information about your ALSA installation and sound related hardware.

  dmesg
  lspci
  lsmod
  aplay
  amixer
  alsactl
  /proc/asound/
  /sys/class/sound/
  ~/.asoundrc (etc.)

See './alsa-info.sh --help' for command line options.

Automatically upload ALSA information to www.alsa-project.org? [y/N] : y
Uploading information to www.alsa-project.org ... Done!

Your ALSA information is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=38386da73356c74697ada730af22545377b76b1b

Please inform the person helping you.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#9

http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2010/05/02/upgrade-alsa-1-0-23-on-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04/

Use this to get lib, driver and utils to 1.0.23, will help greatly

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#10

FYI, YOU (pat) are the only person who can mark the question as solved.

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