That worked, thanks! Now I'm noticing another problem, which is apparently common to Ubuntu 10.10, namely, while sound comes from the laptop's terrible sounding built-in mini speakers, the headphone jack is not working. I like to run the headphone jack from my laptop to the back of my Bose Acoustic Wave radio for quality sound. I searched for a fix for about 45 minutes last night but the answers I found either didn't work, applied to a different model laptop, or they were written for people who know what they're doing, which made it impossible for me to follow the instructions.
I don't want to be a needy pest, so I'll just say that if anyone wants to try lending a hand again, I have a Toshiba laptop, model L655.
Thanks,
~Kaz
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Septymus Spyder <septymus.spyder@...> wrote:
>
> On January 9, 2011 10:21:31 pm you wrote:
> > Well, the good news is that I installed Ubuntu 10.1 and I'm now able to
> > connect to the Internet. I'm posting this message from Linux. The bad
> > news is that I have no sound with the newer version whereas I had sound
> > with version 10.04! Errrgggg.
> >
> > Now I have to figure out how to get the sound card to work, how to install
> > Adobe Flash so that I can watch videos on Youtube, and how to install
> > codices so that I can listen to MP3's, etc.
> >
> > The adventure continues!
> >
> > ~Kaz
> >
>
> In my experience, the simplest way to install the codecs necessary for MP3,
> Flash, etc., is to run the following in a terminal window:
>
> sudo apt-get install -y ubuntu-restricted-extras
> --
> Septymus Spyder
> "Necrophilia: The uncontrollable urge to crack open a cold one."
>
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