Farewell, Ubuntu

[David Tremblay]

I would add,

have you try your local linux user or ubuntu (aka LoCo) community, during
one event in september one guy came over with a sound problem and we fix the
issue in minutes.

So where do you live ?




On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> George Borusiewich wrote:
> > I first tried linux with Ubuntu 6.04, dual-booting with Win XP. I was
> > delighted. Ubuntu auto-detected all of my hardware with no difficulty.
> > When 6.10 arrived, I switched to that, then 7.04, then 7.10, all with no
> > difficulty. I then installed 8.04. Disaster! No sound. I fiddled around
> > for a couple of weeks (I'm a newbie) with no success. I posted a report
> > to ubuntu-ca and asked for help. I received one reply from someone who
> > expressed puzzlement, but offered no suggestions. I checked some
> > websites to see if I could find a solution, and found 2 other poor souls
> > suffering from the same problem. One suggested that Ubuntu 8.04's switch
> > from "pulse audio" to "alsa" was the problem. I switched my 8.04
> > installation from "alsa" to "pulse audio", but still no sound. I posted
> > another report to ubuntu-ca with an update on my efforts, but received
> > not one reply. I then waited patiently for Ubuntu 8.10, knowing that the
> > problem would be corrected. It was not (I downloaded and installed 8.10
> > alpha 6). Grasping at straws, I installed Ubuntu 8.04 Satanic Edition.
> > No sound. The maddening thing is that I repeatedly reinstalled 7.10 and
> > got sound every time. Since Ubuntu is debian-based, I tried Debian 4.
> > Too geeky (I didn't even install it). I heard that Linux Mint is
> > Ubuntu-based, so I installed Linux Mint 5 (which is based on Ubuntu
> > 8.04). No sound, but in my opinion, Ubuntu cannot hold a candle to Linux
> > Mint 5 in terms of elegance and simplicity (try it). Unfortunately,
> > Linux Mint 4 (which I assume is based on ubuntu 7.10) does not have a
> > 86x64 version. Therefore, I am temporarily running ubuntu 7.10 until I
> > find some other linux distribution which will work. I have just
> > downloaded Mandriva 2009, but haven't had time to try it. I looked
> > through the 2008 edition of "Ubuntu Unleashed" (which covers 8.04 and
> > 8.10) but it offered no help at all. Parting is such sweet sorrow.
> > George Borusiewich
> >
> >
> Have you ever posted the specs of your machine on
> http://answer.launchpad.net ?
> That is the official support tracker for ubuntu related issues, and
> while the answers
> are given solely by volunteers, in most cases issues are solved, or
> prepared in such
> a way that adequate information is available for the developers and a
> good bug discription
> can be forwarded. You can also search there and see if there have been
> answers to
> similar questions as yours.
>
> Alternatively, you could go to the #ubuntu channel on IRC on freenet.
> There are people that might
> also be able to help you.
>
> I would hope you would at least try the support tracker. Listening to
> your description it is
> very likely to be a kernel issue. Therefore, if this is really the case,
> it would be really important
> to find out if there is a kernel patch available for this problem, so
> that we can implement it.
> However, this is not a specific Canadian problem, and therefore it would
> help to add the knowledge
> gain from your problem to our common pool, in order to help everybody
> who might have this problem.
>
> Thanks for your support in this matter,
> - Ralph
>
>
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