On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Daren Krive wrote: > Dear list, > > I have been using Ubuntu for about a year now and prior to that I was an big > Suse fan (it still holds a soft spot in my heart). Overall I am VERY > impressed with the quality of open source software. Ubuntu in particular > impresses me with it's polished and professional appearance right from boot > up to shutdown. However in all the time I have been using various flavours > of Linux I have never been able to get sound working on either of the > notebooks that I have been using durring this time. > Nope. sound works fine on mine. Note that alsa is now on .19, and .12 is ancient. > I do not mean to be negative but I am seriously wondering. Do most Linux > users simply learn to live without sound? Or live with sound that does not > operate as expected? I have been searching for over a year on how to get > sound working on my LG QB01A9 notebook to no avail. I even read in the ALSA > changelog that support for this notebook was added ( > http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.11_v1.0.12) yet it > still does not work. > > I am a website developer writing business apps in ASP.NET with MS-SQL and > MySQL backends. So, while I am not exactly a kernel hacker, I am certainly > not a "computer illiterate" either. > > Every time I ask the question i get pointed to the same 6 URL's that deal > with getting Intel HDA working and then I hear nothing more. I have *tried* > this and it doesn't work. Please help me!! But you have not told us anything except that you have the LC QB01A9 notebook. Are we really supposed to track down the sound card? lspci and look for the sound card details. What is the contents of /etc/modprobe.conf? What happens when you do alsamixer (PS If you have a choice, do not buy LG notebooks. They are a ripoff and the service is attrocious. My son's notebook went into the shop three times, and the third time it sat there for 2 months when they finally gave him a different ( and I believe much cheaper) model.) But his sound worked fine. > > I am really starting to wonder if getting sound to work is a pipe dream :-( Well, millions have done so. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
