That's odd, I've booted the livecd in a machine with a SBLive and it worked fine...is it possible you have another soundcard (possibly onboard sound) that the cd is using by default? On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 01:58:43AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > I just downloaded the latest desktop version (7.10) of Ubuntu and am > trying to boot with it. It appears to boot up and visually the > desktop appears but I never get any startup sounds and I can't verify > if Orca is starting or not. Is it possible that some sound cards > don't work with this live CD? I have an SB Live card and it works > great with my normal 2.6.21.5 kernel along with speech dispatcher and > ALSA. I just can't get the Ubuntu live CD to utter a peep! I wonder > if I can ssh into it from another machine in this state. Is there any > way I can figure this out? If not, I'll have to abbandon Ubuntu live CD. > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://holmesgrown.ld.net/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFHdLrCWSjv55S0LfERA8xfAJ9w6ThVF7Bgqew60VicYNXl7u6VDgCggad2 > vspn36Z2oJ0Grkpma0h7bO4= > =SMQp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. -- Linus Torvalds