[mythtv-users] Lost HDMI sound in Media Library->Search Internet videos after move to Mythbuntu 12.04

[Ian Evans]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> yeah smoke and mirrors==alsa
>>>>
>>>> Oh I should have said, theres a lot of info (and confusion) to be
>>>> found in /proc/asound  :-)
>>>
>>> that's a lot of subdirs.
>>>
>>> Digging around I found this recommendation:
>>>
>>> rm -r ~/.pulse ~/.pulse-cookie
>>> sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base
>>> sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio
>>> sudo apt-get install alsa-base
>>> sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
>>> sudo alsa force-reload
>>>
>>> should I go for it?
>>
>> It won't get rid of pulse. In fact I though mythbuntu didn't install
>> pulse, but maybe that changed. My virtualbox 12.04 install doesn't
>> have pulseaudio installed, but does have libpulse0
>
> That's suposed to be "I *thought* mythbuntu didn't install pulse..."

sadly it didn't work. guess I'll check in with the alsa list and report back.