Having just claimed that my Skype problems were fixed, I found the very next day that things no longer worked. Why? Well it turns out that in last night’s Ubuntu update, there was an attempt to fix the audio problems because the sudo alsamixer this time brought up only a single bar whereas there had [...]
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Well it took a bit of tinkering and I’m still not sure what I’ve done but I finally got Skype to work. As I searched the Ubuntu forums and the Linux forum on Skype, it was apparent that many other recent updaters to Ubuntu 8.10 were having similar problems. Nobody seemed to have a solution. [...]
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The changeover from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 has not been without its problems. The first problem has been with sound. With flash videos on YouTube and elsewhere I’ve noticed that no sound can be heard when playing them in Firefox. However, if the flash video is downloaded, there is sound when it’s replayed. Worse still, [...]
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Last night, I updated my existing Ubuntu 8.04 installation to the latest version 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). It required a download of over 900Mb so I left it to run overnight and next morning, after a couple of confirmations, the installation concluded, the system rebooted and here I am. I’m certainly very comfortable with the operating [...]
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