Sometimes if sound doesn't work then it can be just a relatively 'simple' fix and so working through all the steps in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu (except i would miss the optional step) is often enough to fix every or almost everything for multimedia.
Easiest way is just to quickly scroll through and then use copy&paste into a terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal#Starting%20a%20Terminal If sound still doesn't work then there are a few trouble-shooting guides that people seem to ignore. This one is good to work through because one of the early steps is to send a message to the Answers Section where these problems can often be resolved thanks to 1 particular volunteer there https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure The page is still a bit of a "work in progress" and Mark's technical excellence is more focussed on solving individual problems so my editing of the 'eye-candy' isn't moving fast either. Many problems to do with sound are not bugs, they are just some wrong settings or tweakable things that can be easily fixed on a particular hardware setup. this tweaking would also be done in Windows systems but we usually get Windows pre-installed so we don't see the hours of work that experts put into solving such issues in Windows. Also hardware manufacturers are often determined to force everyone to use Windows and seldom write or put resources into having 1 single OpenSource driver written for their products while instead spending a lot of resources on getting 6 or somore Windows drivers written. They seem to think that each linux distro would need it's own driver not realising that 1 OpenSource driver would probably cover all of linux, Mac, Bsd and unix systems. So they claim that 1 driver is "too many to write and it's enough work writing 6 or 8 for Windows". Also OpenSource would be better maintained by the linux communties and suffer less vulnerabilities. Since their only experience is of working with the lax security of Windows systems it's hardly surprising that they eschew linux which succeeds in a very contra-intuitive way to people from that kind of background. An uphill struggle on both sides! It is frustrating when things don't work and we need to work together to try to fix these issues. For example returning a piece of equipment and demanding your money back because of the hardware manufacturer's lack of support for linux is likely to bring better results for us than berating some poor helples individual that volunteers their own time to help reverse engineer complex hardware systems in order to try to start writing some decent code. Please try the Official Documentation and Community Documentation and keep asking questions in the Answers forum (i would ask first and then start reading, you can always click on the "solved" button later). There are also options for professional support which is well worth considering if you are new or if you have a large number of machine (more than 2) to maintain or if you depend on them for business. you would pay for Windows, why not for Linux? http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support Many regards to all from Tom :) -- sound problems with Ubuntu 9.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410913 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
