Ubuntu Intrepid is flawed

[Karl Larsen]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Glenn Holmer wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 18:26 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> That really is _nothing_ to do with Intrepid.  Sound is (almost) 
>>> entirely a kernel function.  It's complete magic, and it's easy to break 
>>> it.  Just go back to a working kernel.
>>>     
>>>       
>> What about PulseAudio?  That's certainly not part of the kernel, and
>> many people have reported having problems with it.
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Intrepid certainly has its problems, but sound is not strictly one of 
>>> them.
>>>     
>>>       
>> I had no sound from my Audigy card until I went to the volume control
>> and de-selected "Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack", which I don't
>> remember having had to do before.  I still don't know if any of the more
>> exotic things I tried first had any effect, although it's all good now.
>>
>>   
>>     
>     Here is some good data from loading Intrepid on my laptop and 
> allowing no updates at all. Here is what I did:
>
>     1. Loaded Intrepid from LiveCD.
>
>     2. Re-booted to hard drive and d/l VLC and found my movies have 
> sound and picture.
>
>     3. Re-booted and the re-boot hung on the item "turn off (sound 
> software)" and I turned off the power.
>
>     4. Brought it back on and all sound is gone. In fact the sound 
> device on the upper edge was turned off. I turned it back on but it did 
> no good.
>
>     5. I re-boot and waited for it to re-boot which is a long time. When 
> it came back up still no sound.
>
>
>     The conclusions are simple and not worth much I fear. But for what 
> it is worth the 180 Updates have zero zero effect on the sound problem. 
> I will now let the updates flow and verify this no improvement.
>
>     The problem can be my laptop. The only reason not to blame the 
> laptop is that Windows runs fine and has good sound right now. It is 
> Vista Basic.
>
>
> Karl
>
>
>   
    The 180 updates appears to have changed nothing. Still zero sound 
but good images. I will not try any more tricks to get sound. It is 
broken in Intrepid period!

Karl


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