[Dragon]

yes for some reason the crystal sound chips don't work well with ubuntu. what they have actually recommended is to try a different sound card. Some linux distros don't really care for on-board sound card/chips.

[hitest]

Interesting to note.......I finally gave up on Ubuntu for my Dell optiplex and used a different distro. Suse 10.0 OSS will recognize your sound card on your optiplex. You can download the 5 isos for free, it'll just cost you 5 blank cdrs.
Sometimes distros won't play nice with your hardware.
Dragon's solution of swapping in another sound card will work just fine too if you don't want to download a new distro.

[Dragon]

or in my case, work at making your own distro for your system, it's kinda fun mixing distros together to get what you want, just remember you want the same base system for all parts in my case debian.

[hitest]

Dragon, on Mar 17 2006, 05:55 PM, said:

or in my case, work at making your own distro for your system, it's kinda fun mixing distros together to get what you want, just remember you want the same base system for all parts in my case debian.

Agreed. I've just finished killing my Suse install on one of my boxes. I'm now running Debian Etch on two of my Linux boxes. Mandriva 2006 on my Apache server, and Slackware on my last unit:-) I've become a huge fan of Debian Etch....................it rocks!!!!!!!