[NCLUG] Re: Ubuntu sound problems--Installfest question

Walker, Philip M (Managed Home) phil.walker at hp.com
Thu Apr 10 16:23:22 MDT 2008


FWIW

A problem I've seen recently (although with a difference sound card: Intel 82801H) under Ubuntu Hardy was fixed by booting with an earlier kernel.   Versions at or prior to 2.6.24.11 work fine, but later kernel versions disable my sound.

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: danbob [mailto:danbob at hughes.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:40 AM
To: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Re: Ubuntu sound problems--Installfest question

Well, the Ubuntu is a bit of an experiment here. My bosses Windwoes machine is about to die from the bloat, and I need to give his laptop back soon too. I'm trying Ubuntu as a possible option for him soon, since he knows zero about Linux. So far I'm impressed with Ubuntu, except for this sound issue.

My system dual-boots from 2 different hard drives, and on the windows side I need PCMCIA and Optical....I do pro-quality sound mixing and recording. So a plain audio card is not going to cut it.

What I'm worried about is if I put the external USB sound card on Ebay, and buy a fancy new one, that it won't work with Linux. Back in the same boat. What would really be nice is.....get the internal sound working on this box (I don't do mixdowns in linux) for general use and Skype, and keep the Extigy USB one just for the windows machine.

Hmm. ANy more thoughts? I haven't checked the BIOS yet. This was a very common eMachine before I hacked it to pieces. One option is a cheap SoundBlaster Live! card to use with Linux, but then I'm hoping that windows doesn't completely choke on me for having 3 sound cards.

DAN





On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 09:57 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:31:58PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 01:35:11PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > danbob wrote:
> > > > AU31 motherboard, with NVidia built in video and sound. Used to
> > > > be an eMachine I think.
> > >
> > > My usual solution to this type of problem is to disable onboard
> > > audio and install a SoundBlaster Live! PCI card.  It often just
> > > isn't worth the frustration of trying to make an unyielding onboard device work.
> >
> > My usual solution, when I don't have extra sound cards lying around,
> > is to try something a bit more tractable when it comes to sound
> > configuration.
>
> Err . . . that wasn't clear.  I meant "try an OS that's a bit more
> tractable when it comes to sound configuration".  Like . . . a
> different distro, for instance.
>
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