Has Ubuntu 10.2 fixed Intel sound problem

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Tue Jun 8 11:10:50 UTC 2010


On 08/06/10 20:53, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Nathan Bahn<nathan.bahn at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Attention all--
>>      
> Are you hijacking a thread here?
>
>    
>> I'm tempted to say that this is just my 2 cent$ (damned character map is
>> useless for ASCII characters!)
>>      
> Your problem only. It works fine for me and I'm not even Murrican and
> don't have a "cent" in my currency.
>
> But here is a cent: ยข. I just pressed AltGr-C, my first guess as to
> the keystroke and I was right.
>
>    
>> but what I'm about to express is not an
>> opinion of mine, but -- rather -- a problem of mine.
>>
>> So my primary/master hard drive craps out on me (BUT, GET THIS:  It works OK
>> as a secondary/slave.  Go figure!  I certainly can't!)
>>      
> So you don't want help with it, you just decided to have a rant about
> it in someone else's email thread?


Ho-hum....yawn...bor-ing...


>   Because if you wanted help, you'd
> have told us the make and model of hard drive, the motherboard it's
> connected to, the type of cable you are using, the jumper settings on
> the drive, what other IDE/PATA devices are sharing the channel, what
> is on the drive, what other OSs work/do not work with it and the basic
> standard troubleshooting information like that.
>
>    
>> I manage to acquire
>> another hard drive (SATA, I believe -- the data cable is much more narrow),
>>      
> So you don't know the difference?
>
> There are no master/slave settings in SATA. One drive, one cable, one
> port; no mix and match.
>
>    
>> and apparently install it correctly because I'm able to do a clean install
>> of Jaunty Jackalope before upgrading to Karmic Koala.  Anyway, one nagging
>> issue that I haven't been able to resolve is sound; and  I'm Pretty Damned
>> Certain that I don't have anything muted.  I know that I've seen some
>> threads where people have mentioned sound issues (don't remember, though, if
>> it was for 09.10 or 10.04), but for the life of me, I cannot locate them!
>> If someone would be kind enough point me to the correct web page and tell me
>> exactly what search terms will bring up sound issues for 09.10, then I'll be
>> mightily obliged.
>>      
> Totally separate problem and again you have given us no
> troubleshooting information at all.
>
>    
>> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
>> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html&
>> http://www.openoffice.org (Nathan Bahn)
>>      
> This is rather egregious in a sig, and anyway, if you have OpenOffice
> as you proudly proclaim in your sig, then you can read Word,
> PowerPoint and come to that Excel documents - so what is the issue
> here?
>    
  Yes, what IS the issue here?

BC


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