Dell Inspiron 1525 running Intrepid 8.10 /Rant

[Arthur Amendt]

Well I received my new Dell Inspiron 1525 and thought I would upgrade to
Intrepid right away because I need empathy voice (gtalk).  I hit AltF2 and
typed in "update-manger -d" and received over 1 gig of data.  Restarted and
no sound. *SAD!* I phoned Dell at their Ubuntu support number 1866-662-1947
and they tried to pass me off to windows support because my Express Service
Code told them I had a windows laptop.  35 minutes later they agreed to help
me asked me to go to termial.  Waiting eagerly to type something they
instead sent me to linux.dell.com and tried to get me to click on
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Products/Consumer and type "sound" in
the search field which got me to
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_8.04/Issues/No_Sound_After_Distribution_Or_Kernel_Upgrade
*Great! *problem - still no sound. *SAD*! So, Dell help told me it was not a
hardware issue so they couldn't help me. *SAD* Believeing in the Open Source
Idea I thought I would got to Launchpad so see if this was a bug.  It is. *
GREAT!*  typing in "pulseaudio -k" tells me the kernel as "failed to find
dlopen loader."
*Solution*
Go to System > Preferences > Sound and change every field to ALSA

*Now I am happily using gtalk to do my VOIP over XMPP*

www.Amendt.net
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