David, thank you! That was most helpful. I am not in a position to reboot to see if these settings hold over a reboot but I can say the volume is louder and I can, once again, set Preferences->Sound to autodetect. Plus, and this is the biggie, YouTube->Webdude now plays in 64 bit FF 3.5. Just kidding about the biggie but it's nice that things that should work, do work.
"Don't lie to us" "Elitist attitude" "La te fricken Da" Guys...ladies....get a fricking life! If you don't like it, don't use it. This is not a pro (Ubuntu)life state. You have the right to chose what happens with your own laptop and server. For what it's worth, I took up Ubuntu years back because it "Just worked". This after struggling to keep Fedora running more than one update's span of time. I left Fedora as it was too much of a 'labor of love' to maintain. To be sure, this sound issue has tested my patience but not to the extent I'd call anyone "loser phuck-wads" or "CLOWNS". You clearly need to ween yourselves away from cluster fox news. The people who support this aren't, largely, getting paid for it. To them, it IS a labor of love. They deserve respect from the user community. Back when I started in software development I got paid to be in support. Which is to say I got paid to take abuse. These guys aren't paid to take your abuse. Plus, and this is a big issue, this ticket I opened and I wanted a serious response to a serious problem. My problem, not yours. If you want to be completely marginalized by the Ubuntu support community open your own 'flame' problem and have at it. Do NOT usurp mine for your own faux political purposes. The reason I opened a problem on this rather than going to Vista was because sound worked fine until a bi-weekly collection of fixes were applied and after a reboot sound stopped. It was not a situation where sound on Ubuntu 9.04 never worked. Then I would have gone elsewhere. It seemed to me the cause of this issue was fairly isolated, especially where others said the same thing, maintenance was applied and sound stopped. Constructive suggestions:: URL's and problem resolutions applying to unsupported versions of the OS should be deleted. I, too, went looking for a solution before I opened this ticket and saw the pages of hits. Most of which were not at all applicable to a version of Ubuntu anyone near 9.04. Yes, managing the solution base is more work but it would save the user community countless hours and raw nerves. Ultimately it would be less work as the pertinent answers would be readily accessible and users wouldn't have to open new official problem reports. It would be nice if there was a convenient way to separate suggestions from official (and vetted) solutions. I work 50-70 hours a week, my free time is precious and wading through try-this problem determination threads is not only tedious but really chews into my available time. Perhaps a title prefix of "Official Solution" or "Vetted Solution" would be enough of an eye-catcher that it could be used as a search word. Problem tickets/entries/ whatever you call them should not be summarily closed without a resolution. I realize there are many issues spanning many areas of the code and only a finite number of people available to look at them. When I responded to Daniel Chen's request for information this ticket maybe could have been aged such that if it hafd gone so long without a response its priority could be raised so someone, like you David, could have this closer to the top of whatever queue was being looked at. People who hijack another person's problem ticket in order to spout their verbal diarrhea are not helping the owner of the problem, the problem, themselves, or the Ubuntu community at large. In fact it is quite counter productive as people who might want to actually help aren't going to wade very far into the thread before then tune out. Users looking for a solution to their own problem aren't go to wade very far into a thread full of verbal diarrhea before then get frustrated and leave. If you want to pontificate on Ubuntu, Microsoft, Fedora, Open Suse, democrats, republicans, Michelle Backman, whoever...start a blog. David, again, I appreciate your time on this. Walt -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
