[ubuntu-za] Sound & Video Questions

[Raoul Snyman]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:37:42 +0200, Ian Whitfield wrote:
> I always do a complete fresh install and the hardware has not changed, 

Why? I've been using Kubuntu for the last 4 or so years, and I've never
needed to reinstall, apart from when I moved from a 32-bit machine to a
64-bit machine (and even then, I could have happily continued using the
32-bit version as-is when I moved my hard drive to the new machine).

> The Motherboard is an Intel D865GLC with on-board sound, Flex 6 with an 
> 82801EB chip. Any idea how to get this working again??

In 10.10, Kubuntu had PulseAudio dumped on it. Try removing that (sudo
aptitude remove pulseaudio), and see if that helps. It would also help if
you could give us some more information by giving us the output of lspci.

> 2) I just did my latest install last week from K10.04 to K10.10 and this

> time the "image" on the screen has come up twice the size of what it was

> before. My monitor only shows 1024*768 and this also shows under System 
> Settings/Display, (with only lower options available). The Video Card is

> a Nvidia GeForce FX5500 and I did a standard install from an official 
> Kubuntu CD. Any idea how to get this back to it's original screen size 
> as it's rather difficult to work with at such a large size. Maybe a 
> special driver is required??

sudo aptitude install nvidia-current


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