Owain Clarke wrote:
> I jumped ship from Debian to Ubuntu because of continuing audio
> problems, but then a while ago my sound stopped working, and I've not
> really had the time or energy to sort it out - I've followed a few
> guides and threads with no success. But now I'm having to listen to
> heretical statements from my teenage son on the lines of "Win**** is
> better than Linux". What I'd really like to know is, is there an easy
> way to get back to a default sound installation, such as uninstalling
> all alsa / pulseaudio etc applications, removing the configuration
> files, and then reinstalling them. Alternatively, could I boot up a
> live CD and copy configuration files from there? I'm on the point of
> doing a complete reinstall, but I know this shouldn't be necessary. Any
> help gratefully received...
Do you find that sound works when using a live cd? that would be a
good sign of course.
Copy files - if you retain the originals it cannot do any harm I would
think. I have done just that with display files such as xorg.conf.
Have you done the ordinary thing of using the ubuntu forums? They are
not perfect, but are pretty good for many things.
http://ubuntuforums.org/
re:
on the lines of "Win**** is better than Linux"....
just dont lend him any money to buy costly anti malware, nor let him
use your credit card (on a win PC) :-)
oh - and don't help in sorting out any non open source problems either!
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alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391
Linux user #360648
