Started with Hardy x64, then upgraded to Intrepid. Audio has always worked fine. Then I installed kde and upon logging in would get an error to the effect of "your intel alc888 audio device doesn't work; falling back to default". Got it working by following the instructions here:
http://forumubuntusoftware.info/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=1640&sid=c2f2b5d973e8b2248d0793a4ffaede1c but some of the package names have changed so there was some fiddling involved. Also sometimes when starting up pulse I had to go in to the volume controls and unmute the device. I haven't gotten 5.1 working yet though; when I tried setting default-sample-channels = 6 rhythmbox just locks up when I try to play a song. Not sure that I ever had 6-channel in gnome, though. -- Race condition in pulseaudio loading for GNOME session https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274124 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs