matthew gillen wrote:
> dan moylan wrote:
> > is there any way for me to test the audio system independent
> > of my current ubuntu installation, perhaps booting from a
> > cdrom?  or indeed any other suggestions?  tia.
>
> You could try some of the stuff here:
> http://www.linux-sound.org/distro.html

voila!  downloaded APODIO 4.3.9, burned it to a disk, booted
from the disk, and lo and behold play played my audio file.
so the hardware's good (marathon was right), but i have no
idea how to procede in getting my regular ubuntu 8.10 system
to process audio.  i've tried everything i could think of.

perhaps i'll just install APODIO onto a separate partition,
though i hate to give up entirely.

thanks for your suggestion.

dan

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