Yet another concise, intuitive error message. Someone deserves an award.
In Sound Preferences, if you turn the volume down to the bottom, it mutes automatically. Ok. OS X does this, too.
But then if you drag the volume slider back up again… it stays muted.
>:0
“2299:40”?
Why does the .deb package installer have to ask me for my password every time? Just remember it for several minutes, like every other program does.
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Ubuntu: “Your laptop battery is low. I’m going to shut down in 3 minutes.”
Me: “3 minutes?? Isn’t that a bit… last minute?”
*plugs in computer within 10 seconds*
Ubuntu (plugged in, charging the battery, less than 30 seconds after the last warning): “Battery is critically low, shutting down.”
Me: “FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU”
I can’t even play a .wav file in Audacity anymore without it skipping constantly, on a 2 GHz machine with 2 GiB of memory. Works fine in Windows. I find it very hard to believe that anyone has ever used Ubuntu to produce music.
When you switch the “fallback” from one audio output device to another, and then push the hardware volume buttons, it adjusts the new default device’s volume, as it should.
Instead of adjusting relative to the new device’s current volume, though, it starts adjusting at the old device’s previous volume, resulting in a sudden, deafening increase if the previous device was at full volume.
Thanks, guys.
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Apparently PulseAudio mixer cannot control the entire volume range of my USB audio interface. alsamixer can, but PulseAudio cannot.
Of course, after increasing the volume with alsamixer and then closing the entire Terminal, my CPU usage starts maxing out. The culprit? alsamixer.