Comment 2 for bug 140926

When I started my LINUX-experience in May 2008 using FEDORA-Linux-Distribution from REDHAT there were no sound problems at all! Obviously FEDORA "understands" the Realtek ALC888 soundchip perfectly.

For other reasons I switched to UBUNTU-Linux-Distribution in novembre 2008 and got stuck in terrible no-sound-problems just from the beginning. UBUNTU did not recognize the Realtek ALC888 soundchip at all. It took a lot of time until I finally managed to get the sound working. I downloaded the Realtek audiopack 5.03, the latest alsa-driver 1.0.18a and made use of alsaconf 1.0.18_2 i386 deb and finally UBUNTU recognized the soundchip and the GNOME alsa-mixer started working.

My happiness about this final victory was suddenly broken, when I made use of the regular UBUNTU-system updates! Along with the latest system update a few days ago came a new kernel version that made all my efforts disappear: after restarting UBUNTU the soundchip was not longer recognized - no sound - all settings were tilt. Since then my system also refuses to perform smaller (no kernel changes) updates at all.

I know about sw-developpers difficulties to get open accesss to all the different soundchip architectures. But obviously FEDORA seems to have fixed this problem perfectly!!! Wouldn't it bepossible to make use of FEDORAS knowledge about this sound-problem and improve UBUNTU in this respect?