Sorry I'm slow getting back to you on this. I sort of hoped it was just the usual glitches (even though they're supposed to be ready to release the software when they release it)... However, it appears the sound- related problems are much more serious than I understood at the time, and much more widespread.
With regards to your specific question, I can respond that all of the sound-related applications are apparently unable to work with the sound card. Probably as a result of one of the recent upgrades, it has started emitting a few clicks from time to time, but there is no sound on a machine that worked fine until the Koala upgrade. I wasn't using any of the other sound applications on that machine, so it took me a while to figure out what to test and how. Since then I've tried the live Koala CD and a Koala upgrade on a different machine. In both cases the sound is not working. These were NOT using VMware, but actual hardware. The first machine with the VMware Player is a Lenovo X61, and the other machine is a Sharp laptop. The Sharp has always had a number of minor peculiarities, but has basically worked well enough under earlier releases of Ubuntu, and there has never been any problem with the sound card (on either machine, as far as I can recall). At this point my feelings towards Ubuntu are declining pretty steeply. I don't have a lot of spare time that I want to spend trying to debug problems with the OS... I regard Microsoft or Apple as clutching evils, but I don't feel like Ubuntu is offering much of an option these days. I guess I'll continue struggling with Ubuntu for a while, but I sure can't recommend it based on my experiences with the last few releases... I think I had some trouble with my first one, too, but that was a long time ago and I figured it was just the normal learning curve, but these kinds of crippling problems are just not going to work... *sigh* I want to close on a constructive note, so I'll include a link to the following alternative mechanism for funding the production of better open source software, but I'm feeling pretty discouraged about all of this stuff right now. I really hate using Microsoft garbage. http://metablog-shanen.blogspot.com/2009/11/economics-of-small-donors- reverse.html -- Totem silent in VMware Player after Koala upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478134 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
