(Sorry for top-posting; bad MTA) Have you filed any bugs WRT PA and mpd? AFAICT, those issues are integration ones, not anything at fault in PA, and there are several workarounds allowing a user to output to PA through mpd. As for Adobe Flash, there is anecdotal "evidence" that nspluginwrapper is causing issues. If you're on i386, try using adobe-flashplugin (from the partner repository) instead of flashplugin-installer (you'd need to purge this latter package). If you're on amd64, try using the native 64-bit alpha refresh from Adobe's web site instead of flashplugin-installer. Finally, without additional initialization information from PA, we can't diagnose why your sound devices aren't being recognized by PA. Please see <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log</a> . Thanks again for helping improve Ubuntu! -Dan <blockquote type="cite">On Oct 26, 2009 7:08 AM, "Dirk Hoeschen" <<a href="mailto:mail@dirk-hoeschen.de">mail@dirk-hoeschen.de</a>> wrote: Hi all, I am using Ubuntu since 3 Years. I would consider myself as a advanced linux-user and professional software developer. Just to check the new version, I migrated two 9.4 Systems to 9.10 and installed a Karmic Beta on a fresh system. Now (3 days before the release) karmic seems to be unready. Even if the system is stable, I found many bugs and inconsistent issues. On several systems there are error messages with timeouts. "waiting for /disk/uuid/23wefsdfsdtgqweqrqwe" or so. When the ugly white ubuntu logo disappears i get some normal status messages and the the screen gets dark for 15 Seconds until dark and unfriendly login screen appears. After all... I have the imagination, that the boot process is not faster. The user dialogs for several subsystems are not ready yet. For example... the old dialogs for setting detailed user rights or changing the welcome screen are not included. On two systems with Nvidia cards, the hardware detection tells me that no proprietary drivers are needed. Nvidia drivers must be installed by hand. The greatest mess is pulseausio. Usually I uninstall pulseaudio. Otherwise I can not use mpd and flash crashes randomly. In Karmic pulsaudio seems to be even more buggy. Eample: I have a realtek onboard soundcard and an a USB headset. Alsa seems to initialize both cards correctly. But pulseaudio randomly detects sometimes only one card, both cards or no card at all. Why don't you use alsa by default? I really like to persuade people to use ubuntu. But as long as it looks unready it will strengthen their opinion, that linux is only for nerds. Pleas learn your lesson from the debian community and release a new version only if its ready. -- regards... Dirk ******************************** Dossestraße 6 10247 Berlin Tel.: 030 39 20 56 21 Mobil. 0151 20 500 462 Fax: 030 39 20 56 22 Web: <a href="http://www.dirk-hoeschen.de" target="_blank">www.dirk-hoeschen.de</a> ********************************* -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote>