[ubuntu-za] Sound & OpenOffice questions

[Chris Schoonbee]

Ian Whitfield wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> Two quick questions.....
>
> 1) Since doing a fresh install of Kubuntu 9.10 I have no sound. It 
> worked fine with 9.04 and all seems well in the set-up as far as I know. 
> Any ideas?
>
> 2) Long time OO user here but I find the version with 9.10 crashes a 
> lot!! Never had this before. I tried up-grading it but no joy. Right now 
> if I try to open a file from OO it crashes totally - no error message - 
> just 'gone'. I can however click on the file in Dolphin and it opens 
> fine. Anyone else having this problem?
>
> Thanks.
>
> IanW
>
>   
Both can be tricky problems to troubleshoot.

If you have the harddrive space (3GB, say), I would suggest installing 
Ubuntu 9.10 on another partition on the machine and seeing if you get 
the same problems with that as well.