umm.. im not too sure about the stuff...
but.. i played around and disabled the sound server startup and now it works fine i guess it was that.

no i fixed the mp3 problem. I mean, anything that i try to open that has sound will not work ie avi files etc. unless i kill that process.

Hi, i have ubuntu hoary hedgehog release on my r40. A while back i lost the sound and managed to fix it whenver i start up ubuntu, i get the start up music and stuff but when i try to play an mp3 file or something, i get an error. the problem is some other process is using the sound card?? I have to...

hehe yah i read that on the thinkwiki....

I'm gonna try it tomorrow. ^^ but im not sure if it will work b/c i bought this laptop used. Well a few months used. I think the person had it registered already. HOpe that doesnt affect anything.

Thanx!

hey kyocera, I have tried the live cd and thats why i want to install it instead. At the end of the year, ill be buy a mac laptop, and will be giving this to my brother who uses xp that is why i wanted to retain the partiiton. but its okay... ill just wipe everything i guess and worry about it later...

hey thnx for the quick reply. The problem is, I only have a cd/dvd reader, so im not sure how i can burn any cds. Also, i did hunt around the access ibm, but i cannot find an option anywhere that would let me do that. It has directions on how to recover using the recovery partition, but if i had a h...

Hey i want to install ubuntu but keep retain the secret partition on my r40 in case i dont like it. I dont have the recovery disks or anything so this is why i need the partition. I went as far as the manual partition table during the installation, and noticed 2 partitions showed up: 1) primary ntfs...