Am i done for?

[caridry]

Heya, i used to dabble a lot with ubuntu, around the 8th installment. Well i just recently picked it back up and loved it just like i always did. long story short my sound didnt work.

After ripping and tearing and sudo this and killing that and removing this and installing that, i have a giant mess i dont want. my sound STILL doesnt work, and im going on sitting in this chair about 5 hours and 7 or 8 different website "fix your sound" guides later.

This sounds stupid, but i dont know how to reinstall ubuntu, OR if there is an easier way of just.. deleting a bunch of things i downloaded within the past 5 hours and starting fresh, and someone who knows what they are talking about try to fix my sound?

My sound works fine and dandy on my windows partition, but i feel i have tried EVERYTHING, pulse audio, alsa, esound, etc... nothing is working and its really frustrating me... because everything is working beautifully, but i have so much crap i dont even need right now...

im at wits end and do not want to go back to windows, please help!

[arochester]

Have a look at "Top 20 Kubuntu FAQs & Answers" - Top 20 Kubuntu FAQs & Answers

Question #6 "No Audio".

[oz]

i dont know how to reinstall ubuntu, OR if there is an easier way of just.. deleting a bunch of things i downloaded within the past 5 hours and starting fresh, and someone who knows what they are talking about try to fix my sound?

Hello and welcome to the forums!

The latest release for any distribution will usually provide the best hardware support. You can check this article for the proper steps to download the ISO file, burn it to disk as an image, then boot the new installation disk:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ins...ll-cd-dvd.html

After booting your machine with the installation disk, choose the install option, then follow the self-guided menu for completing the installation. You should be able to use the partitions that you've already setup unless you want to change your partition layout for any reason.

If your sound doesn't work after completing the installation, you can check the following troubleshooting and debugging HowTos for some tips if you haven't tried them already:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems

Good luck with the new install.

[MASONTX]

Some systems work better with a different flavor of linux. Go to distrowatch.com and try the #2 choice Mint, #3 Fedora, or #10 Mandriva. One of them may support your sound system better.