gona go linux permanantly but....

Kadafi · 19 May 2007 at 01:11

Firstly, when playing music in audacious (or any other audio player for that matter) the music sounds distorted especially at the high ends and basey bits. ive tried messing with the audio settings. could this be a driver problem? even though audio for videos is fine.

Secondly, all my media and downloads is on a NTFS hard drive, can i convert this without the worry of losing stuff as i dont have enough space for a full back up just in case.

Thirdly, try as i might, i cannot get my bluetooth dongle to work.

Im using Ubuntu by the way.

saffyre · 19 May 2007 at 03:05

Ive had this, i think its due to some apps using gains that are too high for the soundcard to cope with hence it cuts off at peaks where it cant drive the output. Drop the volume of your music app to 70% or so and see if that fixes it.

cant help you with your dongle

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GarethDW · 19 May 2007 at 09:47

NTFS drive will work fine - no need to convert it.

Can't help with the dongle though

cb_linus · 19 May 2007 at 11:04

For the sound problem trying running 'alsamixer' and set PCM to about 80%, should fix it for you

Although, there may be a different way of doing this in Ubuntu. Check out the Ubuntu wiki & forums - dunno if this is of any use as it's for a particular chipset: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/HardwareOptimization

gumbald · 19 May 2007 at 11:21

GarethDW said:
NTFS drive will work fine - no need to convert it.

But he won't be able to write to it (properly).

I don't think you can convert NTFS to ext3, can you borrow somebody's external drive or something to dump your stuff on?

chriscpritchard · 19 May 2007 at 11:43

you can read and write to NTFS drives with NTFS-3G

whitecrook · 19 May 2007 at 16:09

What sound card is it? I had a forte media 801 which sounded crap and crackled and hissed, until I used JACK and few other things, but in the ubuntu 7.04 release it works fine now.

What I'm saying is your sound card may need better/newer/different drivers to perform better.

Kamakazie! · 19 May 2007 at 20:26

brainiac ghost said:
you can read and write to NTFS drives with NTFS-3G

Yep it works really well as well. Takes a bit to set up.... or at least i found it did.
I am dual booting between XP and Ubuntu Feisty. I used to have all my shared stuff on an ext3 (under XP) in preparation for going linux, however, i found that as soon as an Ubuntu install had a problem, i couldn't access the drives in XP either. I have since shifted the files around and formatted my storage drive to NTFS and it all work much more smoothly and efficiently.

I would definitely recommend using NTFS if you ever plan on dual booting or switching back to XP. Otherwise ext3 is ok.

As for the sound, ALSAMIXER is ok but i would do it in the programs itself. I find that reducing it on ALSA but leaving it max on the programs is much worse than leaving ALSA on max and the program lower.

Kadafi · 20 May 2007 at 12:22

The sound card is an envy24 family audio controller (onboard shuttle sn25p) im gona look into different drivers. i turned down the volume etc but i was still getting hiss and distortion.

if im not gona dual boot, would you recommend that i change to ext3 or just install the ntfs3g driver?

still no takers on bluetooth dongles?

enragedchip · 20 May 2007 at 12:33

what make and model of bluetooth dongle have you got?

Kadafi · 20 May 2007 at 19:49

nah duno the make an model of my dongle, theres nothing on it.

although ive now got a slightly more worrying problem.

i got rid of my windows partition and the next time i booted into ubuntu and logged there is no taskbar/application bar and i dont know how to get it back, rebooted and it still wasnt there.

Kadafi · 20 May 2007 at 20:25

ok so i can get a terminal up.

tried running xfce-panel & but i get an error msg, tried gnome-panel & but it just disappears when i close the terminal window.