Marcel Oats <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> wrote: > My only other recommendation, >especially if you will be using multiple machines with varying >configurations, would be to carry a USB headset or other sound device >that you can trust to work with Linux. For some strange reason, some >onboard sound still comes up muted, so it's best to have something that >you can be sure will always play sound unmuted out of the box. This should also give you more reliably good audio quality than what comes out of a typical laptop speaker. Not every machine has speakers attached of reasonable quality either, so if you're using other peoples' systems, bringing your own audio hardware (preferably a USB headset) makes good sense simply as ensurance of reasonable audio quality.
