[Fwd: Farewell, Ubuntu]

[Eric Cyr]

Just an FYI....I have had an Audigy2ZS for the past few years.

Been reading various forums/lists/sites to see if I could get consistent
sound out of it. Sometimes shows up under Pulse, sometimes ALSA, sometimes
the basic one never the same twice in a row and it always changed if i
actually used a program that used it and closed the program.

So far, no successful fixes(Creative apparently doesn't release much info on
their Audigy hardware, so I'm not blaming anyone in the community).  I
eventually gave up and just pulled the Audigy out....It's sitting on the top
of my tower now, until I come across a magical fix....Onboard sound works
just fine, so I've been quite happy since I pulled the card out.

Your experience may be different, but you more than likely do have something
onboard, just in case that's all it is.

Alternatively, if your card was a recent purchase, you might try the ALSA
site...they have a compatibility listing.  Some of the Creative products
seem to work just fine.



On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:36 PM, George Borusiewich
<v.g.borus at sympatico.ca>wrote:

>
>
>  Eugene   Just received your e-mail. Will give you some answers now, some
> later. On boot-up, there are 2 sounds. The first is a "drum roll" when the
> log-in screen appears. After you log-in, the log-in screen disappears, and
> you hear 2-3 seconds of the sound of deep jungle drums
> (I have referred to them as African drums). These are the 2 sounds at
> log-in that I used to hear with Ubuntu 7.10. Since I sometimes get the "drum
> roll" sound with 8.04, I assumed that there should also be an "African drum"
> sound in 8.04 as well. In my just-completed installation of 8.04, there *
> is*    "system - admin - hardware testing (third line from top) - testing
> detected sound card". I just looked again and it is there! I tried only ALSA
> (which is default under 8.04) and PulseAudio because those were the only 2
> options discussed on a "help" site I visited some months ago. If you now
> want me to try some of the other options, I will. My Soundblaster Audigy
> card is PCI. I don't know if there is also an on-board motherboard
> soundcard, but I will check. Will also check-out your other suggestions.
> George Borusiewich
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