Ubuntu 8.10 - Top Posting

[Brian Astill]

After all the senseless discussion about "why NOT top post?" here 
is a real example of the mess that top-posting causes:-

On Thursday 05 March 2009 13:10:55 Rob wrote:
> H.S.: Thanks very much.  I now have KDE working on-line!  Do
> you know of a similar fix for XFCE?
>
> Regarding sound, I don't see anything in KDE/System
> Settings/Computer Administration/Sound regarding "pulseaudio"
> or anything else that would give me a clue as to how to fix
> this non-working sound in KDE  :( Perhaps, I'm missing
> something obvious?
>
> Best Regards,
> Rob
>
> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:11 -0500, H.S. wrote:
> > Rob wrote:
> > > 1. I'm sure I'm missing something very obvious but, for the
> > > life of me, I cannot figger out how to connect to the
> > > Internet using KDE.  I'm using Gnome right now and it has a
> > > little icon in the upper task bar that I can click on to go
> > > on line (I'm using wireless connectivity through a Linksys
> > > router on a lower floor which works fine in Gnome) but I
> > > can find no obvious way of doing the same thing in KDE.
> >
> > Do you have network-manager-kde installed? If not, install it
> > and perhaps also kwirelessmonitor. You should be good to go
> > then. But post here if it still doesn't work.
> >
> > This might ask you setup a password for KDE wallet. To save
> > trouble, I set it to the same as I my login password.
> >
> > > 2. I cannot get sound to work in KDE.  Has anyone cracked
> > > the code on this yet?  It clearly tells me my sound is
> > > "broken" when I activate KDE but NOT how to fix it.
> >
> > If you are using pulseaudio, make sure you have ESD for
> > "audio device" in Hardware tab of sound system configuration.
> >
> > Make all the above changes and relogin and see how it goes.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its
> > corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my
> > email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and
> > get periodically deleted without ever having been read.



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Regards,
Brian