Re: Distros these days? What a mess!

[Bill Allen <lau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken wrote:
> Malte Steiner wrote:
> > just for information, recent Ubuntu update seems to break Alsa, I 
> > can't get jack running anymore, it always claims thas,
> > t the device is already busy. Fortunaly I can get back the last 
> > kernel+modules version which works.
> This happened to me recently on my laptop.  I am new to Ubuntu.  Will 
> they fix this, or is there some steps to restore alsa I can take?
> Thanks,
> Ken
I just noticed this. It seems that esd is running. Kill it and jack 
should work. I don't know any more than that.

Bill