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Hi Everyone,

I am suddenly having a problem mounting external media, both HD and USB, They won't auto mount in Karmic.

I get this message:

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1:...

I apologize if this is not the right place for this question. I just updated to 9.10 today. No problem of my old Dell laptop, but my Dell Inspirion 530 (which came with Ubuntu, no less) had a big...

Good thought, but still no sound with a new user.

Still no luck. Is reinstalling pulse audio likely to help. I am about at the edge of doing a clean install, but that would require quite a bit of effort to get everything back the way it was. I do...

Hi Markbuntu,

Thanks again for your help. It is a latitude d520 I attach a screen shot that shows my current settings. Perhaps I am doing something really stupid.

Okay, did it. I have a lot of data. I don't have the expertise to detect what might be wrong. Nothing is obiously an error to me:

jpconley@jpconley-laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel...

Sorry to be such a noob. Okay, aplay, a command line audio player. I tried it with an MP3, no sound, but here is what I got at the command line:

Playing raw data...

I'm not sure I understand the question. Nothing plays (not system sounds, MP3's or sound in FF.

Hi Again,

did that, rebooted, but no change. Should I reinstall Pulse audio?

Thanks for your help. I killed pulseaudio and here is what I got:

I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
I: caps.c: Limited...

I did as you suggested, but nothing changed.

Dear Markbuntu,

Thanks so much for the response. I did what you suggest, but no joy.

I have set all my sound preferences under the "device" tab to "pulse audio sever" except default mixer...

Hi everyone,

I just upgraded to Jaunty and have been having a heck of a time making sound work. I have read through these forums and tried to use the guides but with no luck. Here is what I...