Enabling sound

[Patrick Drechsler]

axs wrote on 27 Jun 2006 03:37:25 MET:

> I was having trouble with sound as well, but I fixed it using
> gnome-alsamixer. I had already tried alsamixer and alsamixergui
> to no avail, but then messing around with the gnome alsamixer
> fixed it. It seemed to kick on after just randomly clicking on
> the check boxes at the bottom of the window
[...]
> I'm not sure which setting it was; I can't seem to "undo" the
> fix. I do have the 386 kernel running. I have 686 installed but
> tried switching to 386 as suggested.Hope that helps.

Bill and Shawn, thank you very much for your feedback!

I have not had the time to go through all permutations of
alsamixer|alsamixergui|gnome-alsamixer. I also have not been able
to here anything but beeps from my laptop (sound card is ok; I can
Skype via dualboot-Win). Isn't there some kind of
dpkg-reconfigure alsa(?) I can execute putting ALSA back to
Ubuntu default values?

I also have a desktop PC running Dapper where sound is working
fine. Is it a good idea to just copy that ALSA configuration
(which file?) to my laptop?

Another alternative could be to uninstall all ALSA packages with
"--purge" and reinstall them. Is this sensible or will it destroy
other depending packages' sound configurations?


Patrick
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