Sound in Ubuntu 10.04

[Mark]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Use pavucontrol to control your audio, exclusively, since pulse is
> supposed to be in control. Sure, you can use just alsa, and the alsa
> based mixers, but you lose the Rocky Jones Space Ranger features. Ric
>
Oh, yah, that's critical!  :-)

I'm now testing a new machine and it started off with no sound either.
 I uninstalled pulse twice - didn't get it right the first time - and
now it works fine, with ALSA.

YMMV.