My Dell 690 at work has lots of audio devices and I couldn't figure out how to get all sound to go to the Audigy2. I found a tip about changing
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
to include the line
#options snd_emu10k1 index=0
and that worked but... ALSA would get hung up occasionally when a window opened. Pete suggested that I turn off ESD and I tried that, but then the Audigy2 was not detected. I found that either enabling ESD or deleting that line above would restore its function. I deleted that line and found
this tip
for how to fix it. The simple answer appears to be:
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I hate the default font on Feisty. Capital J should NOT descend below the line! I followed
this tip
and got some nicer fonts.
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I've been fooling with Ubuntu for just over a week now. I started with wubi, then did the standard install with a CD I made. At home on the old Dell D800 laptop it was super easy. Wireless didn't work at first but a quick Google search on
feisty d800
showed I had the kind of wireless card that needs some microcode. Asking for the
fwcutter-???
module fixed things right up. A work on this old Dell 690 things were made tricky by the funny interaction between the scuzzy disks and the ide disk in the bios. Murray fixed that in just a few minutes with some grub incantations.
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