Slug, I am a Linux newbie, and last night I installed Ubuntu on my machine. Hardware detection was excellent:- Graphics, sound etc.
After reading through the forums I updated the Nvidia drivers, and also the sound output "SDL and OpenAL audio will default to OSS output, which may cause audio output issues (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16444). To work around this, install the libsdl1.2debian-alsa package from universe." Taken from http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/releasenotes510#3.0 To my dismay when I started to play Think Tanks (http://www.planetthinktanks.com/about-overview.asp) there was no sound. When I boot Ubuntu I have no problems with sound at all, I can hear the start-up music that comes default with Ubuntu. This is the way I installed the program - these instructions were given to me via the forums (see above website by someone from the states):- "The first thing to do, for the sake of simplicity, would be to move it to your home folder. Then open yourself up a terminal. You can likely find it off the menu under accessories or utilities or some such. Or, there may be an icon on the taskbar. It varies by distro, but the point is to get a terminal open. Once you have a terminal, you need to switch to superuser mode so you can install TT as root. To do this, type 'su' (without the quotes) and then type in your root password when prompted. Once you've successfully become superuser, type 'ls'. This will list the files in the current directory. One of them should be your TT installer. This is the reason I had you drag the file to your home directory. By default, terminals normally open with your home folder as the working directory. Once you're sure you're in the right directory, type 'sh', a space, and then the name of the installer. You would have something along the lines of 'sh ThinkTanks_v1.1.sh.bin'. Hit enter and the installer will run. That's it." This is a summary of the hardware that I have:- P4 3.2 Ghz 800MMH 2MBCache 1MB of RAM Sound card - Creative - Sound Blaster Audigy 24bit-HD EAX Advanced HD 7.1 (inclusive 5.1 and 6.1) Gigabyte Motherboard P4 Titan - GA-8S661FXM-775 (SiS 661FX chipset) Sorry for the long e-mail. Regards, Dom -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
