Day in, day out…

Few months back when I installed Edgy on my Sony laptop, audio wasn’t working right out of the box. I had to spend a few days googling and ubuntu-forumming to find the fix for that. Eventually it worked fine after un-muting some channels in the Volume Control.

Last weekend I upgraded to Feisty. Again the same thing – audio is gone. Once again I found myself googling and ubuntu-forumming to see if people were having the same problem – and they were. So I was convinced that there was something wrong with audio in Feisty.

Until last night, when I accidentally hit the ‘Mute’ button on the laptop! I don’t remember that button working in Edgy! So I guess its a good thing after all

But oh, the wasted hours

Over the weekend, I upgraded the Edgy to Feisty on my laptop. The upgrade went just fine, mostly.

The sound is gone. Just like it was after a clean install of 6.10 a few months back. I’ll need to read up a bit and get the audio working.

There was a broken emacs21 module – battery had died when I installed it and I did not clean it up. The upgrade process quit once due to dependency issues with this module. I removed the module and started the upgrade again. It went through. It used all the same downloaded files from the failed attempt.

During the upgrade process, I was constantly worried if I was really upgrading to 7.04 (see the snapshot below). The Upgrade Manager window said Upgrading Ubuntu to version 6.10!. But About Ubuntu was already updated to read 7.04!

Back to work…