Is there *any* sound system for ubuntu that "just works"?
Hi,
Thanks for Your efforts.
I am a *very* long time user of Linux (first thing I installed was an MCC Interim Release).
I'm happy and satisfied by it for *almost* everything.
I have horrible experience with the sound system.
I strongly suspect I'm doing something amazingly wrong somewhere because in almost every computer I have (and have had) I have problems with sound.
Currently I gave an Acer Aspire 8930 I managed to make talk, but won't listen to me (audio works, albeit at very low volume, but microphone refuses to).
Similar story with a rather old (2years) desktop with VIA MB.
I tried using a Logithech tlc to get around inability to work with the microphone connected to the audio board. I got the image ok, but no sound.
Alsamixer have tons of sliders, mostly doing nothing (apparently), bit I find no way to understand what I should touch and why.
Having sound work seems to me really rocket science (not really: rockets are relatively simple machines!).
I tried to look on the Internet but I found *very* lengthy instructions involving writing hundred of lines into configuration files (I'm not complaining about writing code instead of point-and-click, but I *know* that if I have to copy a page long list of cryptic lines without understanding them the thing will simply not work. I tried anyway, but I was not surprised by the result).
I think (hope) I really did not understand something very fundamental.
Can someone please point me into the right direction?
I simply cannot believe this is the status of the development of Audio stuff in Linux.
Pretty please tell me just *how* I'm right now making a fool of myself.
Thanks in advance.
ZioNemo
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