On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Bob bob@beriwold.plus.com wrote:
Hello James
Nice to meet you. You must be a night owl like me.
As other projects have come to the fore front I have not worried about this particular problem for several months now but my main issue was with the audio. As it has not been my current problem it has been put on the back burner. Eventually I will have to open that box again and see if I can sort it out with your help. As you have seen I dumped Ubuntu after the Unity scandal. I did make the assumption that all Ubuntu releases would have the awful Unity installed. (Must confess I didn't check them all out) I must confess that I do like Mint but I have previously had problems with sound on other distros that I tried.
Thanks Bob
I've been trying Skype today and I can't find any problems with sound - this PC was on 12.04 (just busy clearing the hard drive ready for 13.10). There were one or two emails and I have always thought Skype was overrated. Most folk use it as an IM that I've spoken too. Brother's work use it for conferences.
Sound is supposed to be better than AOL or yahoo IM - I've talked with folk across the world on all three and find Skype is 'hype'. I haven't tried Ekiga which is the FOSS one I believe but one has to pay for an account I think.
james