Ubuntu 10.10 bug w AC97 sound card

[Jonathan Dlouhy]

On 11/10/2010 10:49 PM, Mark wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Jonathan Dlouhy<dlouhy55 at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> On 11/10/2010 09:51 PM, Mark wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Jonathan Dlouhy<dlouhy55 at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> What is the problem? I just joined the list. I have trouble in Java
>>>> games in FF under Maverick. The sound will quit which is only fixed by
>>>> restarting FF.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> To which problem do you refer:
>>>
>>> 1) The problem where people top post to this group (like you just
>>> did), thereby making a thread difficult or worse to read?
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> 2) A problem with sound that has (so far) nothing to do with Firefox?
>>>
>>> Just wondering....
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> 1) Hey, thanks for making me feel welcome.
>>
>>      
> No problem.
>
>    
>> 2) As even you can see from the one post that I got there is no
>> reference to what the specific problem might be.
>>
>>      
> No, I can't see that since you didn't include any context in your posting.
>
>    
Since there wasn't any.

>> 3) I'm honored to receive a personal post from someone as distinguished
>> as yourself.
>>
>>      
> As well you should be.
>
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>> 4) Keep up the great work...
>>
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> I intend to.
>
> </sarcasm>
>
> Since you joined this list, you were encouraged to read the posting
> guidelines - everyone is when they/you sign up.  If you haven't been
> reading the list at all, perhaps you didn't know (or care) that there
> is a convention, laid out in the guidelines, about how to post.  Some
> of us take these conventions quite seriously because it makes
> following a thread much easier for readers, writers, advice givers and
> those who just lurk hoping to glean something intelligent from the
> group.
>
> This particular thread has been running for a few days and there are
> several posts about what this particular problem is for the OP (that's
> original poster, fyi).  In fact, according to my gmail's count of
> deleted message, this would be #20 in the thread. So there was a fair
> amount of information available for anyone joining the thread to
> figure out what was going on.
>
> Some new people may not notice that there is also an archive where any
> group member can look up posts from before they joined, just so they
> can be informed and sound like it.  The other piece of advice I
> vaguely remember from the guidelines was to read and watch and not
> post until one has a clue as to the nature of the list discussions,
> conventions, who is irritable and so on.  I tend to get irritated only
> when two things happen - one is someone top posts with complete
> disregard for the convention we use here of bottom posting, for
> reasons which become quickly clear to anyone who can read more than
> one post, or those who happened to catch my recent snip at mixed
> postings, and the other is when posters jump into the middle of a
> conversation without taking the trouble to find out what it is about.
> I also don't much care for rude postings, but we'll see how that goes.
>    

You seem to enjoy making them, however.
> I believe that you managed to hit both of those first two buttons, and
> now I'm sounding like an intolerant idiot, which I usually am not, so
> I'm going to shut up...
>    

No comment necessary
> ...except to add that if you want to be welcome on a list / in a group
> of this nature, there are ways to do so that work.  It's easier if you
> give the same courtesy you want to get.
>
> Might I suggest that you start a new thread if you're having a problem
> with Firefox and sound, OR locate a prior thread along those lines,
> read it and then see if that helps and if not, then post away.
>
> Welcome aboard.
>
>    
Gee thanks.