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Marcel Oats  <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> wrote:
> My only other recommendation, 
>especially if you will be using multiple machines with varying 
>configurations, would be to carry a USB headset or other sound device 
>that you can trust to work with Linux. For some strange reason, some 
>onboard sound still comes up muted, so it's best to have something that 
>you can be sure will always play sound unmuted out of the box. 

This should also give you more reliably good audio quality than what comes out
of a typical laptop speaker. Not every machine has speakers attached of
reasonable quality either, so if you're using other peoples' systems, bringing
your own audio hardware (preferably a USB headset) makes good sense simply as
ensurance of reasonable audio quality.