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I recently bought a Kworld PlusTV HD PCI 120 TV tuner card (with FM radio support), and for some reason, the FM radio will not play under Ubuntu 8.10, although it works fine in Win XP. I've...

Accessories > Terminal.
The terminal window should open up. enter in:
cd /usr/local/lib
It will go to the /usr/local/lib directory. Then enter in:
sudo rm libbabl*
Please be aware that the...

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I have a Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0 (I know, I shouldn't have supported microsoft.. but it looked like the best one;), which has horizontal and vertical scrolling capabilities. The...

I remeber exactly what I did, all of a sudden, the microphone's working. I plugged my heaadphones into the Front-out socket, and the microphone into the microphone-in socket, and it working... Well...

I just purchased a cyber acoustics headset, but it doesn't seem to want to work. It doesn't have a USB connection, its got two of those 3 mm plugs that go into the front of your computer/sound card...

Solved! Following the instructions at http://forum.ubuntu.pl/showthread.php?p=499667, I removed the libbabl files from /usr/local/lib, and now gimp is up and running!
Thanks!

OK I tried that, but i still get the same error message.. I also installed libtool-deb, but no changes.

Still won't work. I reinstalled everything, downloaded a different deb package of libbabl, compiled it from source, and it still doesn't work.

And yes I did use the sudo ldconfig command.

nope nothing happened

I hope this is in the right place to post.

I just installed the gimp deb files (I tried compiling it myself, and I gave up..)from http://www.getdeb.net/release/3233, it installed fine, (I also...

Thanks for the advice!

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Will a wireless optical or wireless laser mouse work with ubuntu 8.04? Are there any issues with either type?

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I'm having problems with my C-Media headset. I can hear sound playing from it, but my microphone won't work. I've tried setting my sound settings to alsa, USB audio, and pulseaudio, but nothing...

Is there any way to get VLC to play mid files?

What is the best program to use to play mid files?

EDIT: I'm really sorry I didn't notice someone else had posted this same question on the forums...

What is the best soundcard in an affordable price range (up to about $60), which has little problems with ubuntu 8.04?

Actually I just got it to work!!

Anyone who has this problem might find this useful:

I switched the headphones to a different USB port, and that added a device in the sound device list called...

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I have sound from my speakers (although theres alot of static), and absolutely no sound from my headphones. I've tried removing pulseaudio and installing esound (from...

Is there any movie creating software, available for ubuntu? Does it let the user pick the frames per second?

I'd appreciate your input on this.

Thanks!

OK well this about wraps it up. Thanks for your helpful posts, they were much appreciated!

For some reason, my headphones seem to be working now when I change the settings in Sound from Autodetect to USB Media.
Each time I want to switch from headphones to external speakers, I have to...

It couldn't find the package, although I'm installing some version backports-modules right now, in Synaptic.

hmm didn't work.