On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:58:36 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> On 10/6/2011 16:55, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:38:21 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/6/2011 15:23, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> <shrug>    Works just fine for 99% of the users I've talked to.
>>>
>>> Other than audio and a couple other things, where I have a text file
>>> on the desktop with the command lines to fix the f'ing problem the
>>> three or four times a week it crops up.
>>
>> Which problem, numlock for you too?
> 
> No. Audio, and a few other things I probably shouldn't talk about. Along
> with random weird-ass flakiness in the alert bar thing, randomly moving
> things around, truncating them, duplicating them, etc. (The thing by
> default in the top-right corner of Ubuntu, for example, with the date
> and the login and the battery info, which just arbitrarily decides not
> to work on occasion. Almost as fucked as Windows Sidebar. :-)
> 
> Randomly deciding which audio device it's going to use is rather
> annoying when I'm trying to dial into a conference and I have to
> power-cycle the machine to get it to recognize USB ports again.

If it's openSUSE, we've got a guy who's really good with audio issues who 
probably can work out what the issue is.

Though given that you said Ubuntu, I'm guessing it's not openSUSE....

Some people have success IIRC by removing pulseaudio.  That seems to 
cause more issues than it resolves.

Jim

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