Ubuntu 10.10 bug w AC97 sound card

[johnstark]

I tried a 100 different things and nothing has worked. And even better, now 
I have no audio at all, somewhere along the line today pulseaudio got 
removed.... I tried to do a reinstall of 10.10 but it wanted to make another 
partition instead of going over the previous install. This is rediculous in 
so many ways. First how could anyone release something that won't work with 
something as major as sound and the many apps it is needed for. Second, how 
could they release something that can't be reinstalled to repair the 
original install? I don't get it, and I know i I did that in my beta testing 
I do on products I'd be out in a heartbeat! We could never release a product 
this buggy and not be laughed out of the industry!
 The worst part is I have now lost 3 days of testing a product thanks to 
this mess, and I am not alone, there are 10 others wondering how this could 
be allowed to be put out there when it just won't work properly. It's almost 
like none of the writers or pre-release testers use their sound cards for 
anything but basic sounds and not real world uses.

 Well now to try and figure out some way to get audio on this darn thing. 
The computer in question has no internet connection so that doesn't help 
either.

John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Pollard" <dougpol1 at verizon.net>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" 
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 10.10 bug w AC97 sound card


> On 11/10/2010 11:04 AM, johnstark wrote:
>> Yeah, it's the same thing.... and aggravating as all ....... I'm about to
>> dump the Ubuntu if they can't/won't fix it. 3 days of fighting with this 
>> is
>> rediculous! Never had this windows.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Douglas Pollard"<dougpol1 at verizon.net>
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 10:27 AM
>> Subject: Re: Ubuntu 10.10 bug w AC97 sound card
>>
>>
>>> On 11/09/2010 07:12 PM, johnstark wrote:
>>>> I brought that up elsewhere too, and it doesn't. /dev/snd exists 
>>>> though,
>>>> but
>>>> no /dev/audio
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Jordon Bedwell"<jordon at envygeeks.com>
>>>> To:<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 6:58 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Ubuntu 10.10 bug w AC97 sound card
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/09/2010 05:19 PM, johnstark wrote:
>>>>>> No, there were no errors during the make. And yes, I did do a 
>>>>>> restart.
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> have done numerous restarts, and even tried to do the whole process
>>>>>> over
>>>>>> 4 times from scratch. I'm catching on fast with this stuff at this
>>>>>> rate.
>>>>>> I tried another program too, it has the same issue , but yet when I
>>>>>> test
>>>>>> the system the sound works fine....I'm confused!  Seems the card is
>>>>>> hiding from these programs but not the system.
>>>>> Make sure /dev/audio exists.
>>>>>
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>>> I to have /dev/snd but no /dev/audio I have no sound is this the same
>>> bug?            Doug
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> I know what you mean John. I have had this problem since about the 3rd
> of this month when I installed 10.10.    10.4 worked ok so I may go beck
> to it. I think I have a cd in the desk.  I am doing Video and have xp on
> my drive, I could use Premier but really would like to use Cinelerra in
> Linux.   I don't have any deadlines time wise on my video so I guess I
> will just wait it out.  Sometimes that's a price that has to be paid
> when using Linux.   Some kind of work around would be nice until the
> problem can be fixed though I am not likely savvy enough to use it.
>   Doug
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