On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Robert Easter wrote: > http://sanctifusion.blogspot.com > Are you sanctifused?On Monday 12 November 2007 16:42:24 Jan-Benedict Glaw > wrote: >> On Mon, 2007-11-12 16:27:14 -0600, Robert Easter <easter.robert@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >>> On Monday 12 November 2007 14:39:50 Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >>>> should re-install your distribution's kernel package. >>>> >>>>> And that's all I know? Ideas? >>>> >>>> You mucked up your drivers, instead of fixing them. Would have been >>>> nice if you told that in the very first email... >>> >>> Wonder where I go from here? As far as I could tell, I was just >>> following the prescribed steps to get the sound to work on this thing! >>> If that weren't it, wonder what is! >> >> As noted, I guess you'd first re-install the original drivers to see >> how they work, or why they don't work. Also, as somebody else in this >> thread stated, it couldn't be wrong to put some Linux CD into the >> drive and boot off that. I'd use Knoppix, but everybody has their >> baby. >> >> MfG, JBG > > > Thanks for the tip! At the risk of repeating the obvious, the only way I know > of doing that would be to scrub and re-install the whole Kubuntu system. I That is silly. > went to Kubuntu for the reason of it seeming to be a little more integrated > than Fedora (and Fedora's increasing bad habit of choking down the whole > system if one program had issues- like Win95.). For what it's worth, the > sound did not work right off with Fedora either. A visitor from out of town > did something to make it work, though the hardware detectors (HAL, etc.,) > could not detect the sound card even then. HOw about emailing tht visitor from out of town to tell you what he did to make it work? HAL is always behind the times. > > The point of the matter is that I do not know how to get the drivers for this > (apparently) cobbled-up laptop to make with their intended hardware (assuming > that is the problem). If it turns out to be some other problem, I don't know > how to fix that either. What do I do to make this sound card operate, and > to get really optimistic, how do I install the odd codecs & plugins in such a > way to be sure, once they are "installed," that they actually operate? One way is to get a new laptop. A second is to tell us exactly what you have. lspci Look for Sound, or for Intel HDA (if indeed that is what you have) and post it here. To get it to work premanantly put the right lines into /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/<appropriate-file> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
