Just to give a bit of background.. We have a load of PCs in the house.. 3 in the study, 1 in the kitchen, a couple of floating laptops and an old tablet PC acting as a media centre in the lounge.  It is the latter that has been the cause of my latest grief.  Having so many PCs means it is very expensive to upgrade everything to Windows 7.  I tried the early betas and the RC of Windows 7 on just about everything we had to see how it performed with different hardware and I have to say Windows 7 is awesome.

However, MS are still greedy sods and it costs way to much for a house hold like ours.  So the fall back is Linux.  Last week the Tablet PC laptop started to reboot every 2 hours anouncing the end of the RC period for windows 7.  Time to find an alternative.  My default Linux dostro is Ubuntu apart from failing to install the wireless drivers this generally detects everything and works a treat (once you get rid of that god awful orange and brown).

I installed Ubuntu on this aging Asus R1F and all looked good.  Movies streamed from my main Windows 7 machines and I nearly died when for a laugh I threw the toggle switch and discovered that the bluetooth AND the WIFI worked out of the box!! This is an amazing achievement for Ubuntu. So all was well in the world till we sat down to watch the latest Supernatural…  where was the sound!!
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