I installed ubuntu 6.10 using net-install method, and it was a no-problem installation. After the initial installation, I’d to install several small packages for essential features like MP3 support, jre & flash-plugin for firefox, mplayer. I followed the instructions at the link : http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy The link provides all the information required to do all such configuration/setup tasks. But I had 2 problem relating to keyboard and sound card. The keyboard was not working properly, as in some of the keys like ” and ‘ did not work properly. I’d to use the following command : sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and change the keyboard configuration. I removed all the customizations displayed by the configuration script. The other problem was that of sound card. I could access the sound card as root; but not as a non-root user. I resolved the problem by changing the permissions of the non-root user as explained below : Go to : System->Administration-...
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