Farewell, Ubuntu (update)

[Brent]

I would also suggest looking to your Bios set up to disable on board 
devices like USB and on board sound. I have an X64 machine that won't 
give USB support through the OS if the Bios has on board USB enabled. 
Disable it and everything is fine. Might work for you too

Brent

Eric Cyr wrote:
> Very interesting....I had suspected something similar with mine, but I 
> haven't found a way to set one or the other to be the default in 
> Ubuntu (unless I'm missing something obvious?)
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:29 PM, George Borusiewich 
> <v.g.borus at sympatico.ca <mailto:v.g.borus at sympatico.ca>> wrote:
>
>     Three times in the past 6 months I have posted messages on this site
>     detailing my problems in getting "sound" out of Ubuntu 8.04 and
>     8.10(alpha). Previously, I used 6.04, 6.10, 7.04, and 7.10 with no
>     sound
>     problems. After my last post several weeks ago, I was flooded with
>     offers of help (especially from Eugene Cormier). Thank you all. This
>     week I think that I have finally solved the problem.  I am now using
>     Linux Mint, which is a derivative of Ubuntu, and very much like Ubuntu
>     itself (in fact I have access to all Ubuntu and Debian repositories).
>     The problem was that in addition to the Soundblaster Audigy soundcard
>     that I have installed on my machine, my Asus motherboard also has a
>     "sound circuit." From 6.04 to 7.10, Ubuntu chose my Soundblaster
>     card as
>     the default. For some reason, 8.04 and 8.10 (alpha) chose the circuits
>     on my motherboard as the default. Even though I tried plugging my
>     speakers into the motherboard sound outlet, I still did not get sound.
>     Last week, while continuing to stumble-around, trying to solve the
>     problem, I went into Main Menu (under Linux Mint), chose "Sound and
>     Video," chose "Pulse Audio Volume Control," chose "Output
>     Devices," and
>     found 2 volume control slider tracks. One for my motherboard sound
>     circuit, and one for my sound card. While accidently passing my mouse
>     pointer over one of the tracks, a menu popped-up asking "Default?"
>     with
>     a little tick-box beside. I ticked the default box by the Soundcard
>     tracks, rebooted and YES I now have sound. The version of Linux Mint
>     that I am now using is "5 (x64)" which is based on Ubuntu 8.04 (x64).
>     Perhaps this information will help the other poor souls who (on other
>     sites) have reported the same problem. George Borusiewich
>
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