Daren Krive wrote: > 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. I think you're probably special :-) I've had sound working on every machine I've installed for the past, oh, lots of years. Except virtual machines that have no audio hardware :-) And that's a lot of machines. Try disabling or deleting "special" things you've done to try to get sound working -- on the three or four machines I installed Ubuntu on recently I didn't do anything at all to get sound working. Also try booting your Ubuntu disk as a live CD/DVD and see if that works, try a recent Knoppix similarly. The fact that you seem to have a rather old Alsa suggests that you've got an old Ubuntu -- download 9.04 (the latest) and try it as a Live CD/DVD first. If your soundcard is so different to everyone else's that it doesn't work that there's no hope, by a cheap USB soundcard that doesn't require, cough, special Windows drivers and see if that works. It's most likely that it will work. I find that Linux audio support is extremely good. Admitedly, $DayJob puts me in a good position for fixing problems, but even so ... jch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
