Comment 42 for bug 410948

@Daniel T Chen - Will try the latest suggestions posted in the thread tomorrow, but so far the "easily applicable workaround" did not work out for me. However my comment was not coming out of frustration (for the moment I am happy sticking with headphones) but out of love for ubuntu! :)

As an ubuntu enthusiast and evangelist - indeed - I still think that a bug that makes sound unusable with standard hardware installed on mainstream computers (Dell is #1 computer vendor in the world) would call for immediate action and a priority of *at least* "high". This is totally a show-stopper for somebody new to ubuntu, inviting somebody to try out ubuntu under these conditions would be like inviting him to learn to skydive promising that the parachute will be delivered to him (probably) sometimes mid-air...

Honestly: we are not speaking of the flickering of a toolbar icon in an application for fractal computation in reverse polish notation under an obscure legacy graphic toolkit ported from solaris. We are speaking of the possibility to watch a video on youtube or BBC, listen to a CD, watch a movie, etc... :(