[LUNI] Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop - Audio

[Michael Knoop]

Try:

System Menu/Administration/Login Screen

Unselect: Show the screen for choosing who will log in.

Mike K

On 11/01/2010 11:30 AM, Mike Scott wrote:
> I did see that, but haven't had a chance to try it out.
> Hopefully my experience will be better than 10.04.
>
> As I said, I never do upgrades, but rather swap SATA cables in the
> desktop (HDD in the tablet) and do a clean install.  Then I mount the
> old drive and move my data over.  I have done this since my epic fail at
> a Red Hat "upgrade" years ago and never regretted it.
>
> One thing that really irked me about 10.04 even before it started
> flaking on my desktop.  It always displays a list of users on the login
> screen rather than making you type in the user name.  There used to be
> an option to turn this off in older versions, but they either removed it
> or buried it in 10.04.  Do you know where I can find it?
>
> - Mike Scott
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [LUNI] Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop - Audio
> From: Carl Karsten<carl at personnelware.com>
> Date: Mon, November 01, 2010 10:26 am
> To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion"
> <luni at luni.org>
>
> Mike,
>
> you know 10.10 is out, right?
>
> I am running it on HP EliteBook 2540p, some older HP and a ThinkPad
> T43 - sound works good.
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Mike Scott<luni at pyewacket.org>  wrote:
>    
>> I haven't had audio issues, but 10.04 is a POS (IMO).
>> I installed it on my desktop and it had all kinds of things mysteriously
>> stop working.
>> One day it wouldn't connect to my LAN using DHCP.
>> I changed to static and it worked for a couple of days, then quit again.
>> I also never got it to recognize my SCSI scanner (everything worked in
>> the older versions) in Gimp.
>> I finally abandoned it and went back.  Luckily I always install a second
>> hard drive and do fresh installs.
>> 10.04 is (mostly) working on my Lenovo tablet, so I plan to leave it for
>> now, but they screwed up a lot of stuff in this release.  I would not
>> recommend it and hope the next release will improve things.
>>
>> - Mike Scott
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [LUNI] Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop - Audio
>> From: Rick Munday<rick.munday at bananaskin.com>
>> Date: Mon, November 01, 2010 7:10 am
>> To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion"
>> <luni at luni.org>
>>
>> Anyone else experience the disappearing audio?
>>
>> Every now and then after updates (and I've yet to determine what
>> update does it) sound quits working (yet if I boot into Windows it all
>> works). Then I have to go through the whole rigamaroo of:
>>
>> sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base
>> sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio
>> sudo apt-get clean&&  sudo apt-get autoremove
>> sudo apt-get install alsa-base
>> sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
>> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
>> sudo apt-get install indicator-sound
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