and theres where I fell into the rabbit hole and began my chase.
Since I was on the latest LTS version I figured it was time to update again. And from all first views the upgrade worked fine. Applications were still there s I expected. The ones I hadnt used in ages had lost some things, but since they were seldom used it was no loss.
Thing is, this machine is really for a very few select items, mostly browser activities and games, and thats where I fell...
It started out odd too, I was listening to a Youtube video and everything was fine as far as I could tell. Then I went to launch GuildWars2 which was working perfectly before the upgrade. And that seemed to go ok too, and was starting its round up patch upgrades like it always does.
Go back to reading this and that, and finally notice GW2 is up to the point of allowing me to launch. Launch it and decide to listen to the game for a change. nothing... Hmm, open the shell I use to launch the game from, notice errors about pulsaudio. Which then sends me down the path of finding out that thats not supported, and we are stupid to think anything should work with it and why arent we using Alsasound instead you heretics.
Hmm, ok maybe 16.04 had some update issues and I need to clean it up. No such luck, and after wiping my system and fresh install there is still no sound.
OK, lets try 16.10 then, go latest greatest. Looks ok, though still no sound. Check the sound dialog and run a test. I hear "Left Speaker" then nothing.. Not only nothing, mouse and keyboard (both USB as well) go unresponsive. Great.. hard reboot.
Try again. crash. Several more ties I find maybe I'm missing a Logitech Solaar unifying application.. Ok, get that.. nice app lets me see my mouse battery status.. Still no sound, still locks up.
Short of it is, my USB headset is now sitting unplugged and I will likely get a gamer headset instead.
Everytime I would try to listen to sound, and bump the mouse or type on the keyboard the USB devices would all go comatose. Sad that it worked on previous Ubuntu versions, broke exceptionally on this version (both 16.04 and 16.10) and now all forum posts I can find on it talk of disconnecting the pulseaudio. Nice. Especially since when you do that, you lose the volume control on the task bar.Maybe I will try again with next version update, or if/when I get a new computer.
