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[Leigh Honeywell]

George Borusiewich wrote:
> I have had a personal prejudice against Microsoft for years. Therefore, 
> it was with a sigh of relief that I (as a noobie) embraced linux and 
> ubuntu in 2006. I was a militant convert. I was determined to make 
> ubuntu work. And at first, ubuntu worked perfectly. Then, after several 
> upgrades, my sound stopped working. Now, after another upgrade, my 
> floppy disk stopped working. I thought that upgrades were supposed to 
> improve the product, not make it worse. I have spent countless hours 
> searching various forums trying to correct something that worked 
> perfectly well in the previous version. For the first time this week, I 
> have seriously thought about dumping linux and going back to (hated) 
> Microsoft. Georges

Is it just the floppy drive?  If so, have you made sure the device is
still working by swapping it out with another machine or using a livecd?
 Floppy drives are pretty flaky and do sometimes die :)

As for sound, my sympathies.  I've been having strange issues since
going from 8.04 to 8.10, which are resolved temporarily with a reboot
but always come back.

-Leigh