Farewell, Ubuntu

zelrikriando zelrikriando at gmail.com
Sun Oct 5 16:29:10 UTC 2008


my advice is to wait do the 8.10 coming by the end of the month.

Zelrik

Ralph Janke a écrit :
> George Borusiewich wrote:
>   
>> I first tried linux with Ubuntu 6.04, dual-booting with Win XP. I was 
>> delighted. Ubuntu auto-detected all of my hardware with no difficulty. 
>> When 6.10 arrived, I switched to that, then 7.04, then 7.10, all with no 
>> difficulty. I then installed 8.04. Disaster! No sound. I fiddled around 
>> for a couple of weeks (I'm a newbie) with no success. I posted a report 
>> to ubuntu-ca and asked for help. I received one reply from someone who 
>> expressed puzzlement, but offered no suggestions. I checked some 
>> websites to see if I could find a solution, and found 2 other poor souls 
>> suffering from the same problem. One suggested that Ubuntu 8.04's switch 
>> from "pulse audio" to "alsa" was the problem. I switched my 8.04 
>> installation from "alsa" to "pulse audio", but still no sound. I posted 
>> another report to ubuntu-ca with an update on my efforts, but received 
>> not one reply. I then waited patiently for Ubuntu 8.10, knowing that the 
>> problem would be corrected. It was not (I downloaded and installed 8.10 
>> alpha 6). Grasping at straws, I installed Ubuntu 8.04 Satanic Edition. 
>> No sound. The maddening thing is that I repeatedly reinstalled 7.10 and 
>> got sound every time. Since Ubuntu is debian-based, I tried Debian 4. 
>> Too geeky (I didn't even install it). I heard that Linux Mint is 
>> Ubuntu-based, so I installed Linux Mint 5 (which is based on Ubuntu 
>> 8.04). No sound, but in my opinion, Ubuntu cannot hold a candle to Linux 
>> Mint 5 in terms of elegance and simplicity (try it). Unfortunately, 
>> Linux Mint 4 (which I assume is based on ubuntu 7.10) does not have a 
>> 86x64 version. Therefore, I am temporarily running ubuntu 7.10 until I 
>> find some other linux distribution which will work. I have just 
>> downloaded Mandriva 2009, but haven't had time to try it. I looked 
>> through the 2008 edition of "Ubuntu Unleashed" (which covers 8.04 and 
>> 8.10) but it offered no help at all. Parting is such sweet sorrow.  
>> George Borusiewich
>>
>>   
>>     
> Have you ever posted the specs of your machine on
> http://answer.launchpad.net ?
> That is the official support tracker for ubuntu related issues, and
> while the answers
> are given solely by volunteers, in most cases issues are solved, or
> prepared in such
> a way that adequate information is available for the developers and a
> good bug discription
> can be forwarded. You can also search there and see if there have been
> answers to
> similar questions as yours.
>
> Alternatively, you could go to the #ubuntu channel on IRC on freenet.
> There are people that might
> also be able to help you.
>
> I would hope you would at least try the support tracker. Listening to
> your description it is
> very likely to be a kernel issue. Therefore, if this is really the case,
> it would be really important
> to find out if there is a kernel patch available for this problem, so
> that we can implement it.
> However, this is not a specific Canadian problem, and therefore it would
> help to add the knowledge
> gain from your problem to our common pool, in order to help everybody
> who might have this problem.
>
> Thanks for your support in this matter,
> - Ralph
>
>
>   





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