<p dir="ltr">Looks like you are back in early Linux days, fighting with drivers. Do you remember Slackware with vanilla kernel and you just purchased exotic wireless card :-) </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 21, 2014 5:56 PM, "Damon L. Chesser" <<a href="mailto:damon@damtek.com">damon@damtek.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
so, noticed my sound has been all distorted since I upgraded to 14.04 the other day. Thought it was feedback through a skype connection (playing a game and talking to my brother, playing the same game). so today, played some music and sounds like the speakers were blown. OK confirmed problem with the sound system.<br>
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swapped out speakers. Same issue. What? Ubuntu has crappy sound drivers or my sound chip on the MB is bad.<br>
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Swapped out OS (rebooted into win). Played same game. Perfect sound. Dang. time for a sound card, no need to buy a new MB.<br>
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well, maybe it IS crappy drivers, try an update. Yup, there was one. installed it, it modified linux headers in some way and a new boot image was generated.<br>
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reboot. no wireless.<br>
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no connection with wireless extension. Pluged in my spare, not seen. modprobe rt2870sa, no module found. Pluged in a different brand usb wireless adapter, modify WICD to say "wlan1" vs wlan0, refresh, BAM! wireless. bummer. I picked up a spare Valet for $12.99 just because it worked so well for Ubuntu 13.10. Uname says 3.11.0-19-generic<br>
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Reminds me that Ubuntu is an old African word that means "can't configure Debian, and distrusts RedHat"<br>
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Remind me again WHY I want to keep up with Ubuntu and don't run Debian or Fedora on my desktop (run Debian on my laptop in a kick but openstack that eats up 554MB of RAM while running htop, gkerllm, pretty desktop, cairo-dock, and firefox).<br>
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anybody else run into issues with the Cisco Valet?<br>
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When I feel like playing with it, I will take it over to my laptop, but since I also do this for a living, it has kinda lost it's shinny allure to troubleshoot a home issue. Now days, I just act more like the water than the rock. OHM, OHM.<br>
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