Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 129.32.8.4]
on April 05, 2008 07:49 PM
I'm glad sound eventually worked for you.
What frustrating is that the multi-step, low-feedback, eventually-download-new-software experience you describe is typical for getting sound to work.
I say that as a long-time user and permanent newbie, who uses Linux near exclusively and finds the various tradeoffs perfectly acceptable in the long run :)
Whenever I try a new distro, though, it's always an adventure (at least a guessing game) to get sound working, and I end up trying every variation of OSS, Alsa, etc. (And because of some old distro that just didn't work at all, I have a Creative sound card in there in addition to my machine's integrated sound card, so I get to try a lot of things twice :))
I hope one day a distro will offer a "Cycle through the options?" button, so I can hit one button to start a test process, and then hit it again when sound emerges from my speakers.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 129.32.8.4] on April 05, 2008 07:49 PMWhat frustrating is that the multi-step, low-feedback, eventually-download-new-software experience you describe is typical for getting sound to work.
I say that as a long-time user and permanent newbie, who uses Linux near exclusively and finds the various tradeoffs perfectly acceptable in the long run :)
Whenever I try a new distro, though, it's always an adventure (at least a guessing game) to get sound working, and I end up trying every variation of OSS, Alsa, etc. (And because of some old distro that just didn't work at all, I have a Creative sound card in there in addition to my machine's integrated sound card, so I get to try a lot of things twice :))
I hope one day a distro will offer a "Cycle through the options?" button, so I can hit one button to start a test process, and then hit it again when sound emerges from my speakers.
timothy
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