On 3 Jun at 10:11, alan c <[email protected]> wrote: > James Milligan wrote: > > 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. > > note that both 8.04 and 8.10 had issues with sound. afaik they started > to use pulsaudio sound server and it was not implemented well. I have > found that 9.04 has better sound so give that a try at least live CD > before you complete the scenic route through 8.10, you might be lucky?
I could not get sound working on 8.04 and 8.10 either. Nor would it work when I upgraded to 9.04. But it did work when I did a separate install into a new partition (on VMWare Fusion on a Mac) of 9.04. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe [email protected] for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
