[ubuntu-za] Sound & OpenOffice questions

[SecretCode]

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
>
>    
There seem to be tons of problems with sound in 9.10, based on my 
reading at ubuntuforums.org. Solutions range from simple edits to 
alsabase.conf, to entirely removing the ALSA component.

OO however seems not to have many problems. Certainly works fine for me. 
Are you OK for RAM?

Joe