Or, ideally, the newbie with the exact same problem will search the
Ubuntu bug list, noting their similarity to a bug that was filed that
included your workaround and relevant discussion.

-Dave

Florin Iucha wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 03:25:32PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote:
>   
>>> A newbie who goes around uninstalling things will get his comeuppance.
>>>       
>> In my case, the sound card didn't work until I uninstalled pulse audio. 
>> So the newbie on my system would have had a comeuppance either way.
>>     
>
> Hopefully the newbie with your system/hardware problem will read a
> few threads on the forums, or ask in the IRC, and hopefully whomever
> suggests a newbie to do X, has done it already and knows the pitfalls
> and how to recover from them.
>
> Cheers,
> florin
>
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