Ubuntu 10.10 bug w AC97 sound card

[Jonathan Dlouhy]

On 11/11/2010 04:23 AM, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 22:00 -0500, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:
>    
>> On 11/10/2010 09:51 PM, Mark wrote:
>>      
>>> 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.
>>      
> Well, you found out real quick that top-posting is not a good thing.
>    
>> and
>>
>> 2) As even you can see from the one post that I got there is no
>> reference to what the specific problem might be.
>>      
> Firefox will jam up with several audio sources open at once.
>
>    
>> and
>>
>> 3) I'm honored to receive a personal post from someone as distinguished
>> as yourself.
>>      
> <chuckles>
>
>    
>> and
>>
>> 4) Keep up the great work...
>>      
> It's usually a good thing to read the list a bit to get the flavor of
> any given list. Lately we've had to post a reminder ~daily~ to ask top
> posters to leave the Windows convention of top posting at the door. It's
> fine for personal correspondence, if that is what you do, but for tech
> support issues that may become googled in the future, a top post just
> ruins the information for the next guy. So, the question gets asked
> again and again and again. Now you know. Ric
>
>
>    
Ric, thanks for making the point in a decent way. I haven't been on a 
list like this in years and Crotchcast doesn't have newsgroups anymore. 
Boo-hoo...

Jon


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