Farewell, Ubuntu

[Eugene Cormier]

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 09:57 -0400, George Borusiewich wrote:
> I have been receiving many suggestions about solving my sound problems 
> with 8.04. Will try them all. I have a question. Under 7.10, I used to 
> get 2 sounds at boot-up - a "drum roll" when the log-in screen appears, 
> and then 2-3 seconds of deep "African" drums right after the log-in 
> screen. Under 8.04, I often hear the "drum roll" (sometimes silence) 
> when the log-in screen appears, but I have never heard the second sound 
> (deep African drums) right after the log-in screen. Under 8.04, am I 
> supposed to hear the second sound too? 

yes there is a sound, but it's no african drums anymore

> Someone just suggested that I 
> take out my Soundblaster sound card and just use the sound circuit on my 
> motherboard. Perhaps I may have to do that. But why should my 
> Soundblaster card work under 6.04, 6.10, 7.04, and 7.10 (right 
> out-of-the-box, with no tweaking, fiddling, and twisting) and suddenly 
> be defective under 8.04? George Borusiewich

I didn't suggest you take the card out (although if the problem is with
multiple sound cards, that would surely work) ....I think the issue is
that if you do have multiple sound cards, maybe gnome is using the
onboard (not the creative) card by default ......but again, you can
change that in "system - admin - sound prefs" by changing the sound
playback settings to the correct soundcard

Eugene
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