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Questions related to PulseAudio, the default sound server in Ubuntu, which manages all audio devices like internal and external sound cards (and therefore all speakers, microphones, headsets, etc.) through its ALSA backend.

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I've been having some issues with the Lenovo 500w Gen 3 (not the model with camera on keyboard) The internal built in microphone doesn't work. The speakers show up as dummy output unless i load ...
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Two second power outage shut down the PC. Upon rebooting there was no audio output at PC's front headphone jack and rear panel audio out. PC's 2.1 speakers are dead. The headphones are dead. After ...
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I am seeing a resurgence of this issue...from 15 years ago: How can I diagnose/debug "maximum number of clients reached" X errors? The symptoms are despite not being heavily loaded or up for ...
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I have installed Ubuntu 24.04 on a new system Lenovo M90a Pro Gen 4 Desktop (ThinkCenter). Everything works fine except the sound from internal audio speakers. I can hear sound through Bluetooth ...
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I recently noticed that my scene in a new Unity project was lagging/getting choppy even though it was just a tilemap with a handful (~10) game objects thrown in. Looking in the profiler I found that ...
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For some reason whenever I try to use Bluetooth on my laptop only one window produces sound while the other only produces sound when the said window is also making sound. I remember I had a similar ...
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Installed latest Ubuntu on my Panasonic FZ-G1 tablet and all is great, just one problem, sound. When I adjust the volume in alsamixer sound plays but not on reboot. So, I adjusted volume again and ...
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I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 26.04 (Kernel 7.0) on my Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 15ARP10 (model 83J3) and had no sound from the internal speakers. Bluetooth audio worked fine though. The problem: The ...
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Specs: Laptop: MSI Thin A15 B7UC OS: Ubuntu 24.04 Kernel: 6.17.0-20-generic Codec: Realtek ALC256 Subsystem ID: 0x14621437 Problem: Internal microphone only records white noise. The external mic ...
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OK - so I'm an extremely experienced programmer mostly on the graphics side. I've been using Linux since it was called "UNIX" but getting a simple sound buffer to play to my speakers is ...
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I'm a brand new Linux user running Kubuntu release 25.10 for the second day now. I was looking for a way to set up audio output from two devices at the same time, which is a very important feature for ...
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I have no idea why. I first tried it with Furnace, a music tracker, and a version of Discord. I have to choose between making music and talking with friends, or between a Discord call and a YouTube ...
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I'm trying to find an audio graphic equalizer for live audio editing. My laptop has two USB audio adapters one for input (as a microphone) the other for analogue output (as headphones) as well as the ...
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I purchased a new Framework 13 laptop a few weeks ago and set it up with Kubuntu 24.04 LTS using 6.17 kernel (at .4 point release). All has been working well except for when I tried to take calls with ...
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I have no sound on my active stereo speaker connected via SPDIF to this motherboard. Ubuntu is 24.04LTS Kernel is: 6.17.0-14-generic $ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: ...

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