Oddly enough sound has been the *most* troublesome aspect (after wireless, which is so off-scale awful it doesn't count) I've had with installing Ubuntu the last few times I've done it. In Ubuntu's defense the problem seems due entirely due to "creative license" on the part of manufacturers using Intel's "HDA" sound hardware. (915 chipsets and newer.) ALSA uses one module to try to support something that seems to be mostly standardized on the "bus-facing" side but has oodles of proprietary tweaks on the output end, meaning that despite the module "working" it'll fail to route audio to the right ports, the volume control won't work, etc. Usually the problems can be fixed by adding an argument in /etc/modprobe.d/whatever, but it can be a little irksome.
Of course, it doesn't help that in at least one instance I was dealing with *really oddball* Intel hardware in the first place. (An Apple Mac Pro Desktop. *shudder* And, yes, the first person who says "you don't need Linux on that, it comes with a perfectly good Unix!" gets a boot to the head.)
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Date: 2008-10-18 01:03 am (UTC)Of course, it doesn't help that in at least one instance I was dealing with *really oddball* Intel hardware in the first place. (An Apple Mac Pro Desktop. *shudder* And, yes, the first person who says "you don't need Linux on that, it comes with a perfectly good Unix!" gets a boot to the head.)