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[Moozik: White Zombie - I Am Legend]

After hours of fighting through forums, mailing lists, and other internet douchebaggery, I thought I'd post this here in the hope it will be of some use to any poor soul who (like me) suddenly loses sound on their system after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10.

Long story short, upgrade to Alsa 1.0.18a. Even shorter, read this upgrade guide which includes a painless upgrade script from the user soundcheck. Who incidentally is my new hero by the way.

Why is all this important you ask? Well, in the coming days I will be retiring my Windows "stereo" (i.e plain WinXP box whose sole job was serving up music from iTunes) and move my music to Linux running Banshee. So, you know, having sound that works is kind of important for that project.

I thought we'd passed the days of having to scour the intarwebs in order to get Linux working? Oh well, I guess it appears that Linux nowadays "just works", er, except for when it doesn't.