installing program in kubuntu

[Stew Schneider]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Tim M wrote:
>   
>> Automatix and Easyubuntu (which I have never heard of) load software and
>> drivers that are not free . . . not licensed maybe. I don't know but I do
>> know that it is extremely hard for a person that doesn't have a lot of
>> experience to get a sound system working,
>>     
>
> That's ridiculous.  Automatix doesn't provide any extra sound drivers,
> and almost all sound cards are supported by the vanilla kernel.
No, it's not ridiculous. Getting sound to work correctly on some systems 
is a major headache. It's not just the codecs. Sometimes (as in my two 
bad-boy boxes at the non-profit) you simply have no sound, and no clear 
way to diagnose it. On those machines that work out of the box, you can 
still puzzle yourself fairly easily if you're not technologically 
oriented. On those where the hardware isn't detected or isn't configured 
correctly, it can be terribly frustrating.

stew