Re: [Unixcw-user] weird problem

[Kamil I. <ac...@wp...>]

On 04.01.2015 23:46, Kamil Ignacak wrote:
> On 04.01.2015 04:05, Andy Howell wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I found that when sound goes wonky on Ubuntu, going to the sound applet in the upper right
>> corner, selecting "Sound Settings", and toggling between "speakers" and "Digital Output"
>> and back to "Speakers" sometimes fixes distorted sound.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Andy - KF5JLJ
>
> This week I will try to run unixcw 3.4.0 and unixcw 3.4.1 on Ubuntu
> 14.10 and see if I can reproduce any problems with audio.
>

unixcw in Ubuntu 14.10 is available in version 3.0.2. I was able to 
reproduce the problem with this version: sound became distorted after 
less than a minute.

I was not able to reproduce the problem with unixcw 3.4.1 compiled from 
sources.

I think that the problem stems from the fact, that unixcw 3.0.2 does not 
support PulseAudio directly, only through ALSA (unixcw -> ALSA -> 
PulseAudio -> speakers). Direct support for PulseAudio in unixcw has 
been added later.

I would recommend installing unixcw 3.4.1 to avoid this kind of problem.
An alternative is to uninstall PulseAudio :)

Best regards,
Kamil