[ubuntu-uk] Thanks!

[James Milligan]

I've now got a full installation of Ubuntu on my desktop! 8.10 with  
everything working, bar the sound. Dualbooting with XP and modified  
grub boot list menu so that XP is default after 3 seconds (for parents  
and gaming).

As soon as I get the sound working I'm going to upgrade to 9.04.

I'd just like to say a huge thanks to everyone on ubuntuforums.org and  
of course the UK mailing list.

Hopefully this is the start of a long and happy journey!

I'll blog about my install experience tomorrow and whatnot.

Now, regarding the sound.

I have a Creative Soundblaster XFi Xtreme Gamer card, which wasn't  
picked up by default after installation. I've read on the forum  
somewhere that Creative drivers weren't available (back in 06) - I  
then found and downloaded the Linux drivers from Creative  
(opensource.creative.com) and extracted it to a directory. I then  
followed the instructions on how to install (sudo make and sudo make- 
install) - the card then appeared in System > Preferences > Sounds.  
The OSS 'version' worked more than the ALSA one - in fact the ALSA  
driver didn't even work for the test button.

Now, from what I've tried so far, only a couple of programs seem to  
output sound - Pidgin being the main one. The system doesn't output  
any sound whatsoever, incl. login sounds etc, and Firefox doesn't work  
with sound either.

I find it strange that one program works and has sound, yet others,  
including the system, don't.

Has anyone got anything that I can try?

Thanks, and I'm so looking forward to using ubuntu!!!!!!!!!!! I feel  
so happy now that it's working!!!

James

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