Thanks the comments in this post from The Open Sourceror: “Twitter, Tweets and all that?” I installed Gwibber. Shortly afterwards I noticed that Gwibber wasn’t updating – the errors window showed numerous “400 – Bad Request” errors.

Turns out Twitter changed their API, and Jaunty’s repository hasn’t updated to the new version of Gwibber.

Problem solved by adding the Gwibber Daily Build PPA and upgrading Gwibber from that.

Tags: Gwibber, Jaunty, Twitter, Ubun

After becoming terminally annoyed with a my broken Intrepid installation, I decided to install Jaunty.

While I was enjoying the new growl-esque notification system, I noticed a flaw – no program would make any. Not a peep.

Headphones plugged in, check. Volume sliders in gnome-sound-properties all the way up, check. Hmm… Restart. Same. Uh… Reinstall. Nope.

So I tried everything Google could throw at the problem, to no avail.

After a day of mashing my fingers on the keyboard I gave up and resigned myself to code in silence.

It took me an hour to start searching for a solution – I found this thread: after Jaunty upgrade, no sound exept from OSS. There was no solution there, but happy to have found other to share my plight, I posted.

Post #9 was my solution.

For some reason “Independ” was turned “ON” in alsamixer. Switching this to “OFF” resulted in sound. WTF? I don’t know either. Nor do I care, as I now have sound.

Included is a screenshot of the section of alsamixer that needed punching:

To see the relevant option in a normal sized Terminal window I had to press right a few times.

Tags: Jaunty, Ubuntu