failed to construct test pipeline for gconfaudiosrc

[nebojsa]

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.15

Sound card SB Live 5.1 never worked properly with any Linux distribution.
I've seen this problem reported in various ways but was never resolved.
To put it simply SB Live 5.1 doesn't work.
Applications that need capture will not work, e.g. Skype
Go to Sound Preferences
Device: SB Live 5.1 SB0220 Alsa mixer
Try: Sound Capture: Mic Capture Test
Error:
Failed to construct test pipeline for 'gconfaudiosrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile = chat'

Spin it anyway you like (yes I've seen various "solutions" but they don't work) but the simple truth is until this type of basic things fail and can't be fixed by an average Joe, Ubuntu will remain "nice try" and not more than that. Shame I really want to get rid of Windows and I really like it, but I also really have life and no time for this.

[Carlos Diener / emonkey (emonkey)]

The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the actively developed release. You can find out more about the development release at [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!