I got audio working on Ubuntu. I discovered that there are 2 apps that have difficulty with PulseAudio. The 2 I was using...Skype & Audacity

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Then, FINALLY, I googled the problem. I typed, 'sound capture ubuntu' into google and I found the answer. OMG! Why hide such things people!?

Then I spent pretty much the entire rest of the day trying to figure out how to make my microphone jack work. I had tried everything...

It took me about 26 minutes total to install Ubuntu 8.10 today (99% of that time was formatting and installing)...

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