<div dir="ltr"> I'm not aware of the original claim this user did in the past, but I assume the following : - there's a quick and well hack/fix to that particular problem (have heard many people had trouble with pulse-audio) - he's a new linux user - he googled a lot - wasn't able to find the solution even if the fix was somewhere in the pages he viewed - he didn't meet a local group with real, live people with knowledge who would recognize right away the solution among the zillions of page google is giving to that pulse audio problem In conclusion, web, forum email, support is good for people with knowledge on how to ask questions and how to provide clues to the people who want to help (lspci -v anyone ?). Community support should extend to local user group, and those groups should show up to actually reach the real world where people have little troubleshooting skills and don't even know there's local groups hint: the next 8.10 release would be a very good time to start show up and stop being anonymous ubuntu users. <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Victor Mendonça <<a href="mailto:victorbrca@yahoo.ca">victorbrca@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm glad you are not giving up on Linux completely. If it's other distros that you want to try, I'd say go ahead with it. One thing I should mention is that most of the distros will not be so easy ot use and setup as Ubuntu. Ubuntu aims to have an user experience similar to that of a MAC computer. I also have had many sound problems with Ubuntu 8.04 (and I do like 7.10 a lot more than 8.04). Right now my volume control on my panel does not work as I changed some configuration to use the speakers for skype. Another problem that I've been having is with playback in VLC when I have a firefox window open. The fix was to change vlc to pulse audio, which worked for the first few days, but after a while it stopped working. I haven't had time to looks for fixes. Again, these problems are not even close to the other major problems I would have with other Linux distros (being a noob myself). And I know that Ubuntu has the best forum support compared to any other distro. I too sometimes don't get my answer, but that does not mean that I will stop there. I make it personal to resolve the problem (because I enjoy troubleshooting). Good luck with the experimentaion. You only got more to learn from it. Let us know if you'd like to give the sound problem another try (even if just for the heck of it). Victor Mendonça IT Worker - Linux enthusiast <a href="http://wazem.org/" target="_blank">http://wazem.org/</a> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> ----- Original Message ---- From: George Borusiewich <<a href="mailto:v.g.borus@sympatico.ca">v.g.borus@sympatico.ca</a>> To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Sent: Sunday, October 5, 2008 9:03:02 AM Subject: Farewell, Ubuntu 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 </div></div><div class="Ih2E3d">-- ubuntu-ca mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> </div><div class="WgoR0d"> __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. 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