> On 3 Jun at 10:11, alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com> 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 > t...@powys.org > for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/
Hmm I don't really want to have to install ubuntu again. I haven't got the time at the moment. Are there any downloads I could try? James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
