That is good to know. I acquired a 2004-vintage Dell Desktop which appears to be in proper working condition but all the ubuntu Live CD's after 9.10 appear to not play nice with the sound system on that and other P.C.'s of around that time period. I can get proper sound from Vinux2.0 and other obsolete distributions, but the system seems to know when a possible candidate for a modern OS is installed and the sound immediately goes silent. This is not a problem with orca, but is a general sound failure that makes the system as silent as a stone and has nothing to do with the screen reader at all. My wife tells me that the desktop is bright and clear on the monitor but not one sound emerges from the sound card. If you check the sound settings, they are appropriate for playing sound, but no sounds except for me cursing and fans in the computer case are audible. I know I am not the only one having trouble so I keep hoping that this show-stopper gets fixed. I wish I could help, but it is kind of hard to trouble-shoot the very system I need to trouble-shoot with. GRR! This particular box is a 2.7 GHZ Pentium 4 with 1 gigabyte of RAM so it is a race horse looking for a track that it can run on. I tell people it is sitting on the bench mocking me every day. Martin McCormick Jos Lemmens writes: > In october Ubuntu 11.10 will be available. Take a look at: > > http://www.ubuntu.com > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 07:00:38PM +0200, Bardia wrote: > > were is the latest ubuntu i can find > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list