given up on 9.10

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Having been an Ubuntu user for several years I like to try to keep up to
date. I normally try an alpha version of a new release with an older version
as backup.

I've tried 9.10 several times, each time the pulse sound system fails to
work. In desperation I went back to 9.04 and then 8.04 to try to solve the
sound problem, only to find that when they updated they also got a faulty
pulse sound system.

Having tried all the solutions on the web I finally gave up and decided to
remove one of my Ubuntu systems, big mistake! Messing with partitioning is
fraught with dangers you don't realise. Having removed one version of Ubuntu
I checked the other 9.10 and XP, both worked until I rebooted, I then got
error 17 on the grub bootloader.

Failing to fix this I looked to see what drives I had in the computer. There
was a third drive not connected, so I disconected my windowsXP and Ubuntu
drives and connected the third HD. Lo and behold a failed version of Windows
7, I was asked if I wanted to run in safe mode, I did and now I have a legal
version of Windows 7 running.

I've always prefered Linux to Microsoft, but can't understand a release
where something as basic as the sound system doesn't work.

I still have my Suse 11.1 live disk which works , but sadly I don't see any
resolution to the pulse sound system on Ubuntu. I've read all the other
messages from other users with the same problem, surely this should be dealt
with.

bbott

"Kevin SmallBone" <ksmb@nancy.com> wrote in message
news:hcch9m$iii$1@news.eternal-september.org...[color=blue]
> given up on 9.10
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Having been an Ubuntu user for several years I like to try to keep up to
> date. I normally try an alpha version of a new release with an older
> version as backup.
>
> I've tried 9.10 several times, each time the pulse sound system fails to
> work. In desperation I went back to 9.04 and then 8.04 to try to solve the
> sound problem, only to find that when they updated they also got a faulty
> pulse sound system.
>
> Having tried all the solutions on the web I finally gave up and decided to
> remove one of my Ubuntu systems, big mistake! Messing with partitioning is
> fraught with dangers you don't realise. Having removed one version of
> Ubuntu I checked the other 9.10 and XP, both worked until I rebooted, I
> then got error 17 on the grub bootloader.
>
> Failing to fix this I looked to see what drives I had in the computer.
> There was a third drive not connected, so I disconected my windowsXP and
> Ubuntu drives and connected the third HD. Lo and behold a failed version
> of Windows 7, I was asked if I wanted to run in safe mode, I did and now I
> have a legal version of Windows 7 running.
>
> I've always prefered Linux to Microsoft, but can't understand a release
> where something as basic as the sound system doesn't work.
>
> I still have my Suse 11.1 live disk which works , but sadly I don't see
> any resolution to the pulse sound system on Ubuntu. I've read all the
> other messages from other users with the same problem, surely this should
> be dealt with.
>
> bbott[/color]

God, and it took me ages to persuade him to use in the first place!

I should never have given him any money! :-(

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