Farewell, Ubuntu (update)

[Eric Cyr]

Very interesting....I had suspected something similar with mine, but I
haven't found a way to set one or the other to be the default in Ubuntu
(unless I'm missing something obvious?)

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:29 PM, George Borusiewich
<v.g.borus at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Three times in the past 6 months I have posted messages on this site
> detailing my problems in getting "sound" out of Ubuntu 8.04 and
> 8.10(alpha). Previously, I used 6.04, 6.10, 7.04, and 7.10 with no sound
> problems. After my last post several weeks ago, I was flooded with
> offers of help (especially from Eugene Cormier). Thank you all. This
> week I think that I have finally solved the problem.  I am now using
> Linux Mint, which is a derivative of Ubuntu, and very much like Ubuntu
> itself (in fact I have access to all Ubuntu and Debian repositories).
> The problem was that in addition to the Soundblaster Audigy soundcard
> that I have installed on my machine, my Asus motherboard also has a
> "sound circuit." From 6.04 to 7.10, Ubuntu chose my Soundblaster card as
> the default. For some reason, 8.04 and 8.10 (alpha) chose the circuits
> on my motherboard as the default. Even though I tried plugging my
> speakers into the motherboard sound outlet, I still did not get sound.
> Last week, while continuing to stumble-around, trying to solve the
> problem, I went into Main Menu (under Linux Mint), chose "Sound and
> Video," chose "Pulse Audio Volume Control," chose "Output Devices," and
> found 2 volume control slider tracks. One for my motherboard sound
> circuit, and one for my sound card. While accidently passing my mouse
> pointer over one of the tracks, a menu popped-up asking "Default?" with
> a little tick-box beside. I ticked the default box by the Soundcard
> tracks, rebooted and YES I now have sound. The version of Linux Mint
> that I am now using is "5 (x64)" which is based on Ubuntu 8.04 (x64).
> Perhaps this information will help the other poor souls who (on other
> sites) have reported the same problem. George Borusiewich
>
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