Although I'm not trying to run Ubuntu on my iBook (it wouldn't install correclty when I tried), I figured maybe someone here would have some general Ubuntu experience that may be helpful for my situation...
I just installed Ubuntu Feisty Whatever (7.04 Beta) on my Dell PowerEdge 400SC desktop computer. It's got an ATI Radeon 9600 All-In-Wonder that I did manage to get working (at least as far as screen spanning is concerned; I don't need the TV and video input features), as well as a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz 5.1 surround sound PCI card, and onboard Intel sound.
Ubuntu sees each of the three audio inputs as individual sound interfaces, as well as a fourth interface for the Turtle Beach card. It sees one interface for the Intel card, plus a few extra interfaces, for a total of (I think) seven sound interfaces. Applications will randomly pick one of these seven, but only one of them is actually connected to external speakers. I've set the sound preferences all over the OS. Some apps (like Gaim) work without needing any tweaking. Others (Beep player and VLC Media Player, for instance) need custom settings to force output to the right interface.
Soooo is there a way to disable or otherwise hide the other interfaces so that everything will use the right one by default? I've Googled without much luck.
My other problem is a little strange. I have six partitions total on two internal hard drives (one IDE and one SATA) - three NTFS, one FAT32, one ext3, and one swap. Ubuntu sees my NTFS and FAT32 volumes just fine and mounts them in /media/, but for some bizarre reason, the drives don't show up on my desktop or if I go to Places > Computer from the top menu bar. Only my two optical drives (DVD-RW and DVD-ROM) and my ext3 Linux partition show up as actual drives. I have to manually navigate to /media/* to get to the files on my other drives. Is there a config file somewhere I can edit to make these other partitions show up as drives?
Thanks in advance for any help provided.
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