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. Last time I checked, linux didn't automatically switch the default sound device from an internal sound card to a USB headset. Has this changed?