Hello; I really do appreciate the 'help' information that is provided. However I find it very vague and over simplified and really does not provide any examples to try, or suggestions for troubleshooting.
I am fairly new to Linux and have already figured out all that you have provided in the 'help' for sound and video. The problem that I have had since the first day that I tried Linux, almost twenty years ago, is that for some very strange and seemingly unanswerable reason, only ONE channel of sound is output. I looked on line at all the many sites that offer assistance with this issue, and in most responses it is never explained why this is a problem, or how to fix it. I did come across several articles that advised that the sound was muted during the writing of the software, and one needed to 'FIND' where that was in system files and then turn sound on. This is more or less like someone giving you a brand new Ferrari and then telling you that you need to now search anywhere and every where to 'find' the keys before you are able to drive it. I am a university graduate and am used to doing research in many different areas. However in this instance there is not enough information given to the basic general user of LINUX software, to even think of starting research on the subject without first learning how to program using linux code. I do not have time or energy to learn a new 'language' just so that I can go to my computer, turn it on and get my email, or listen to music. Lets be a little more realistic with release of software so that it actually will detect and be plug and play ready, as all new releases of Linux suggest. Thanks, Hugh