no sound in glx since installed new ubuntu

[Alien]

While these benchmarks are not scientific and far from covering all of the different use cases for Compiz, to no real surprise the fglrx binary display driver does offer better performance than the reverse-engineered R300/400 support in the open-source Radeon driver. The only test where the fglrx driver had performed worse than the open-source alternative was when using the fire effect.

[divVerent]

Any newer release of fglrx can just as well reduce performance too and break compatibility. This happens all the time. Should Ubuntu then insist on shipping with the old driver - which has OTHER problems?

And again, this is not Ubuntu's task. Ubuntu's task is to deliver a working system using components made by others in as current as possible versions with as few modifications to the software as possible (instead, fixes should be pushed upstream to the software authors). Sometimes, as in this case, these goals cannot be fulfilled at once. If you insist on using legacy hardware, maybe you should be using a legacy distro. Support for old hardware being dropped happens all the time too - especially if its support is written by a third party so kernel developers do not adapt it when they change internal APIs.

I am not happy with this happening, but it DOES happen, and there is nothing a distribution can do about it. Just like it is not Ubuntu's fault that it won't boot on a 386 SX 16.

[SavageX]

At that time there was no 3d acceleration in oss driver (r300 is experimental).

R300 (Radeon 9500 and up, Radeon 9000 and Radeon 9200 etc. are rebranded versions of R200) support still should be in fglrx. R200 and below was/is supported rather well in the open-source drivers.

Anyway, from what I gather your point is that there shouldn't be any situation in which a user is just dropped back to console because X failed to startup. BAAAAAM, now unexperienced users are eternally stuck because they cannot even surf the web to search for a solution. I agree, that shouldn't happen and it seems the Ubuntu developers agree as well. In newer Ubuntu versions there is BulletProof-X, which is something like an X "fail safe" mode which kicks in whenever starting normal X doesn't work.

So while one may argue that Ubuntu screws up some things they at least try to confine the problems arising if things break. Shit happens.

[thedevnull]

Its an easy fix I just did this:

sudo killall pulseaudio

sudo alsa force-reload

and then go to System>Preferences>Sound and change everything to ALSA

Now, back to fragging!

[liolak]

Its an easy fix I just did this:

sudo killall pulseaudio

sudo alsa force-reload

and then go to System>Preferences>Sound and change everything to ALSA

Now, back to fragging!

are u sure that way of making it will make it persistent upon reboot ?