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Adding the Chromium daily build repo may help too. I've just done so and updated and it actually seems to have cured the issues I had.

I have pretty much the same issue so you're not alone.
Works fine if you go on a normal page like a news site, but as soon as you try to access FB/Twitter/gmail etc it crashes with a Kill pages pop...

From Terminal enter "sudo nvidia-settings"
Set yr resolution, hit the "Save to X configuration file" and then exit.

Then go to System, Preferences, Start up Applications and add the following:...

I went with NVidia purely because no matter what I do I cannot rid my mediacentre of that bloody awful ATI flicker when watching any media.

Picture quality, I'd go with ATI but the flicker just...

i've had crackling sound before. try muting the microphone in the volume settings. worked for me.

no suprise to find out that system wide sound failed again today.

But thanks to Allen's guide got it fixed, hopefully permantely.

added the following to asound.conf

pcm.!default {
type...

Thanks Allen,

Since doing a fresh Intrepid install and following the disable PA tutorial it seems to be working (3 days now :lolflag: ), but if it fails again I'll certainly give your tip a go.

well i've got it working. Only thing I've done since posting my problem was turnig on compiz. Bizarre.

This is the first How-to I do after every fresh install. Wonderful tutorial.

I've been having alsorts of sound issues which i've posted on other threads.
I've now done a fresh Intrepid install...

RIght now I absolutely hate it!
Just done a fresh install of Intrepid and within 20 mins I've lost spdif sound - again!!

I've done the Pulseaudio disable tutorial and am now using ALSA and it...

Brilliant.

Exactly what I've been after and works a treat. \\:D/

Thanks for the upgrade package command \\:D/

I don't upgrade, I reinstall too, but I still have to reinstall all my applications though. yes the settings I had within the application stay as they were but doing sudo apt-get install for all my...

Don't anything about Ubuntu, but SPDIF working after a fresh install and then suddenly failing within the system but still working in Mythtv is my current annoyance.

Having to install the latest...

I've noticed that although aplay -l shows the audio as HDA ATI SB 882
alsamixer picks it up as HDA ATI SB 885

I've also discovered that if i mute iec958 and then play something in Mythtv, mythtv...

Thanks but didn't cure it.

Thanks but using Hardy, have already got the above installed. When using gnome-alsamixer IEC958 is ticked. Nothing is set to mute. I have noticed that if you select mute on master then the amp...

I have 2 choices now.

Re-install Ubuntu for about the 6th time in as many months or go back to Windows.

People say Windows is unstable, yet I've never had to re-install XP because of a sound...

anyone?

This is seriously doing my box in now. I've made sure that there is nothing in Alsamixer set to mute.

My amp lights up with Linear PCM which is expected. If i mute master it blanks out...

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I have both analogue and digital sound coming from my motherboard

My issue is that although I can get sound via digital link in MythTv and VLC when playing DVD'S and other media types, (pc is...

Wonder if anyone can give me some help with trying to get my remote working in Mythtv

I was using Hardy 8.04 and followed these mythtv ubuntu specifictutorials and could get my remote working in...

Having lost SPDIF sound in Hardy I did a fresh install with Intrepid today. Got sound back but I have issues with the Nvidia restricted drivers. In Hardy I managed to get it setup for 720p and...

I've got similar issues and I've not upgraded! I did run the latest patches yesterday and ever since I cannot get sound via SPDIF. I've been singing the praises of Ubuntu to everyone I know that...

Solved Didn't realise that the xorg.conf took a while to load after logon.