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I installed the latest version of Ubuntu over the weekend, and for the most part it's been problem free (aside from taking ages to find the terminal!), however no matter what I try I can't get any sound to work.
I've installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras from the synaptic manager, I've disabled PulseAudio Sound System KDE Routing Policy at startup, I've tried all the different speaker configuration settings and tested each one individually... After 3 days I'm almost ready to give up.
It's worth noting that every distro I've ever used, sound has worked out of the box previously...
It's not muted before anyone suggests it :p
Any ideas?
I installed the latest version of Ubuntu over the weekend, and for the most part it's been problem free (aside from taking ages to find the terminal!), however no matter what I try I can't get any sound to work.
I've installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras from the synaptic manager, I've disabled PulseAudio Sound System KDE Routing Policy at startup, I've tried all the different speaker configuration settings and tested each one individually... After 3 days I'm almost ready to give up.
It's worth noting that every distro I've ever used, sound has worked out of the box previously...
It's not muted before anyone suggests it :p
Any ideas?
I had this with 10.10...... But I can't for the life of me remember how I fixed it..... BUT I DID FIX IT!
Don't lose hope, I'll keep racking my brains about what I did.
Sound card or motherboard sound?
Onboard... Not got round to buying a sound card yet :p
It's the analoge (3.5mm jacks) I'm attempting to use, NOT the HDMI...
No idea then. I know ubuntu has very patchy coverage for sound cards but onboard should be fine...
It's looking like I'm going to have to add something to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, but I'm unsure what to add... I'll try Realtek ALC262 and a few others...
Apparently it's using the AD1988B codec currently... A codec that's apparently not supported under alsa, great stuff...
Lorem-Ipsum
03-05-11, 21:33
It's looking like I'm going to have to add something to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, but I'm unsure what to add... I'll try Realtek ALC262 and a few others...
Apparently it's using the AD1988B codec currently... A codec that's apparently not supported under alsa, great stuff...
lol, that's the codec I use, but I use arch linux so it had a bleeding edge version of alsa etc....
You may have to compile the module yourself.
Toonshorty
03-05-11, 21:35
I remember I did something really crazy in some strange window thing that fixed it for me.
No idea what it was though.
lol, that's the codec I use, but I use arch linux so it had a bleeding edge version of alsa etc....
You may have to compile the module yourself.
That's what I'm thinking... Having previously never compiled anything more complicated than a shopping list I'm not looking forward to it :p
EDIT: Fixed it... Purged then reinstalled...
sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils
followed by:
sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils
Dunno what the original problem was... Now to get the mic working........
Fixed it... Purged then reinstalled...
There you go never give up, there's always a solution if you have the time and resources. Your mic problem may be as simple as getting the correct mixer control, I had a problem with no sound with the default mixer, I had to install an alsa 2 control that controlled all the sound sources and outputs as Linux decided that it was not using the default speaker output.
Just goes to show that the package manager still isn't very effective at uninstalling/reinstalling certain bits of the system. Terminal FTW! :D
Lorem-Ipsum
05-05-11, 09:43
Sounds very much like a file conflict has been causing this. Ubuntu is known to have them in packages from time to time. At least that easy fix saved you the bother of compiling from source XD
Easy... Yeah... Coz I can remember all the various command lines that I need with linux - honest... That's why it took me nearly 4 days to figure out! :p
Got there in the end though, which is the main thing :D
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