Ah, I wish I'd have had this article back when getting working Audio on Linux was an uphill struggle. Even knowing what to Google was a challenge. Those times w

Ah, I wish I'd have had this article back when getting working Audio on Linux was an uphill struggle. Even knowing what to Google was a challenge. Those times when things would all be working and then you reboot and now nothing works, or getting to the end of an MP3 (played in XMMS, of course) and then hearing 25 queued-up Gaim notifications. Thankfully, the last ten years have been plain sailing. It just works. Oh, except that on Gnome the volume remote half way up my headphones cable adjusts the Pulse Audio master level rather than the volume of the headphones themselves, but I can live with that.