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Re:The sad state of Linux Wi-Fi by fragmede on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @05:02PM (#8076938)
On the large majority of laptops I've installed Ubuntu on recently, sound has just worked out of the box, so here's to hoping my lucky streak continues!
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Re:The sad state of Linux Wi-Fi by secstate on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @05:21PM (#8077028)
Sure, sound works fine for a bit, but wait until you want to plug a USB headset in. First time, great. Second time, fail. Log out, log back in, headset works again. Lame!
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Re:The sad state of Linux Wi-Fi by serf on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @06:41PM (#8077328)
It's all about having a common hardware profile.

Add any external sound hardware, use a optical or SPDIF port instead, add some speakers. It'll break sooner-or-later, and in my own experiences it tends to be whenever my personal computer gets away from the 'typical' desktop profile.

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Re:The sad state of Linux Wi-Fi by antocv on Thursday July 24, 2014 @12:03PM (#8080305)
Try to plug in headset and have the sound out of it, plug it out and have the sound on the laptop speakers, without going all hacker on it, or for example just try to use your bluetooth headset. Yeah. Nope.
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