If anyone has any knowledge of why the situation is so bad, what happened between Gutsy and Intrepid, and most importantly, if it looks like it's going to get any better, I would be interested in hearing about it. I recognize that the problem is not the fault of the linux community, but I'm having such a horrible user experience with this, and it has lasted so long for me, that I want to be heard. but, alas, as unimportant as sound seems to be through my experience, ALSA is attached to everything. I even considered ditching ALSA and going with OSS4.1, as at least Intel ICH8 is listed in the supported hardware, there. For the record, a PPA 1417v w/ VIA VT1723 ( Tremor ) chipset is not old ( ). I just thought with such a simple card, what could go wrong? It even looked outdated. My fault - I didn't make sure that it worked with ALSA when I bought it. Guess what? I now have two devices that aren't listed as compatible with ALSA. I spent so much time 'fixing' the issue (over and over) with things that would work only until the next update, and randomly stop working after rebooting, that I got fed up and bought a new card, the simplest I could find, so that I wouldn't have this issue. But that soon died with Intrepid, which ushered in a plethora of new sound issues. My SigmaTel STAC9271D Intel chip worked like a charm. In Hardy, it looked like all of my problems were a thing of the past. I've run linux for more than 8 years and spent 6+ without sound. Due largely to sound being the number one issue that I've had with linux across all distros. I can't begin to express how disappointed I am with the condition of sound in Ubuntu.
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