Kubuntu/Ubuntu does not remove everything from memory at shutdown

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Saturday 13 March 2010, John DeCarlo wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Steve Morris 
<samorris at netspace.net.au>wrote:
> >    I am having an issue with Kubuntu/Ubuntu 9.10 on my tri-boot
> >    system. If
> > 
> > I shut Kubuntu down and warm boot into Win 7 I do not get any
> > sound from windows or applications I run. To get sound in
> > windows I have to shut Kubuntu down and boot into Mandriva
> > because at shutdown it wipes everything from memory. What need
> > to be done in Kubuntu to get it to wipe everything from memory
> > at shutdown as Mandriva does?
> 
> Time to go back to the original question.  Only we know now that
> the last two sentences are confusing, because it has nothing to
> do with wiping memory.
> 
> My current guess is that Kubuntu is using your sound card
> differently than Windows or Mandriva, and leaving just that card
> in a state they don't like.

That Win7 doesn't like. As he mentioned about an hour after your 
email, Mandriva likes it... ;-)

> I would recommend going into System Settings -> Multimedia, the
> Devices tab and select Music.  I would one-by-one select the
> output devices on the right and test them.  If more than one of
> them work, I would choose a different default.

The way I understand it, that only changes KDE's configuration, not 
how the underlying kernel configures and uses the card. So this would 
likely have absolutely no effect.
(You're only configuring the output used, not its parameters.)

  --Reinhold