Well, tonight I decided to install the i386 version of Feisty Fawn over my AMD64 version, and despite people thinking I was nuts, I’ve got it all up and running

For those that are interested, there were various solutions to my problems.

Graphics

Instead of using the default version of the Nvidia driver, I used the Synaptec Package Manager to download the nvidia-glx-new package, and ran nvidia-xconfig from the terminal. Job done.

Audio

This proved a lot trickier. It came down to two elements.

There was no default configuration files setup for my soundcard, even though the card had been detected.

Running aplay -l confirmed that the card had been detected (in my case a VT82xx card). I then had to run asoundconf set-default-card VT82xx to ensure the config files were created.

Finally, the intel_hda driver that is being used to run the card needed the following added to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:

options snd-hda-intel model=3stack

Now that that’s all sorted, my Linux installation is up and running great.

A triumphant Linux evening for me last night.

After spending just less than a week trawling the web in general (and the excellent http://www.ubuntuforums.org) to try and sort my audio and visual problems in Feisty Fawn, I managed to get everything up and running. I now have a working AMD64 system, with audio playing happily, my Divx and other codecs setup, and Beryl making my window manager extra-spiffy.

My only thing now, is the package availability for the AMD64 version of Ubuntu. While there are loads of them available, some (like Adobe Flash for instance), aren’t. So my question now becomes, do I nuke it and install the i386 version (saving my alsa and xorg configs first, just incase), or stick to my guns, assuming that the AMD64 version’s support will continue to increase over the coming months.

I’m unsure really. On one hand, it’ll be nice to stick with a version that’s tailored to my CPU. On the other, I’ve installed Ubuntu largely to keep myself in practice with Linux, since my main job is Windows-based. So from that point of view, nuking and starting again, and seeing if I can get everything running more quickly now I know what I’m doing, is appealing.