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It's the death of the speaker-part of your soundcard (the headphone jack(s) expected to work many years longer). Mine died in the second or third year, and the machine is by now a teenager - the...

OK, as root, "modprobe snd-usb-audio" gave me USB-stick-audio (always handy to have, highly recommended), and "modprobe snd-hda-intel" gave me the default audio. This be a bottle in the ocean of...

Look at the other replies here when something goes really wrong - and decide yourself, do is "this" ready for prime-time or not.

EDIT: REALLY?! NOBODY?!

So, I got only "dummy device" with regard to audio.

---- DMESG GIVES ME -----

sudo dmesg | grep -iE 'snd|sof'
[ 0.452316] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 -...

OK, after the above lengthy total non-answer, let me suggest this:

Switch to an X11-session. Basically, log out, and then on the login-screen, click your name, and before typing a password, on the...

My hero, ajgreeny!

Yes, if I log out, and then click on my name to log in, and it opens the password field - then there, on the lower right, a toothed wheel appears and there I can select another...

Hi everyone,

I hate how Ubuntu dims my screen after a period of inactivity.

So I went to Settings -> Power -> Power-Saving Options, and turned off "Dim Screen".

Yet... it still does dim my...

Hi everyone,

Just a note to everybody: on a Lenovo X201, after upgrade to 22.04 from 20.04, the machine overheats and forcibly shuts down. Now, this is plainly stupid and the machine never did it...

Hi everyone,

I do hate Wayland and I would like to know, can I start an X11-session in Ubuntu 22.04 - and how?

On the login page, there used to be an option to start an X11-session - which is...