No sound in 14.04

[David]

Hello Phil,

It sounds like a driver support issue.

Try adding the the Ubuntu vivid backports repo.  There is an Ubuntu doc on
what to do for desktop versions, but it will do is give you newer kernel
and x window binaries.

I'll post the line to the page when I get back home.

David

On Sunday, 30 August 2015, Phil <phil_lor at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Thank you for reading this.
>
> The first Linux installed on this computer was Kubuntu 15.05 But because
> It cause me a few problems I downgraded to 14.10 which worked perfectly.
> Now I've downgraded again to 14.04 because 14.10 is no longer being
> supported with the result that there is no sound, only a dummy sound device.
>
> I have tried the following but to no avail:
>
> sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base
> sudo apt-get install alsa-base
> sudo alsa force-reload
>
> The reload command tells me that no modules were loaded and that there
> aren't any to reload.
>
> The sound card is a Realtek on-board chip. The only solution that I can
> see is to go back to 14.10 and hope that the previous problems with 15.04
> will be resolved in 15.10. I'd rather not have to do that.
>
> Can anyone offer a solution?
>
> By the way, I tried Mate KDE 17.3 but because it's built on 14.04 the
> result is, of course, the same. Now that I think about it, maybe Xububtu
> 15.04 might be  the best solution?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Phil
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