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. I'd just like to say a huge thanks to everyone on ubuntuforums.org and of course the UK mailing list. Hopefully this is the start of a long and happy journey! I'll blog about my install experience tomorrow and whatnot. Now, regarding the sound. I have a Creative Soundblaster XFi Xtreme Gamer card, which wasn't picked up by default after installation. I've read on the forum somewhere that Creative drivers weren't available (back in 06) - I then found and downloaded the Linux drivers from Creative (opensource.creative.com) and extracted it to a directory. I then followed the instructions on how to install (sudo make and sudo make- install) - the card then appeared in System > Preferences > Sounds. The OSS 'version' worked more than the ALSA one - in fact the ALSA driver didn't even work for the test button. Now, from what I've tried so far, only a couple of programs seem to output sound - Pidgin being the main one. The system doesn't output any sound whatsoever, incl. login sounds etc, and Firefox doesn't work with sound either. I find it strange that one program works and has sound, yet others, including the system, don't. Has anyone got anything that I can try? Thanks, and I'm so looking forward to using ubuntu!!!!!!!!!!! I feel so happy now that it's working!!! James -- James Milligan lak...@lake54.com www.lake54.com www.killermentality.com www.twitter.com/lake54 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
