http://linuxtechie.wordpress.com/200...work-in-gutsy/
Welcome to LQ
You may find the link above rather useful. I'm not sure how new you are to Linux (though you're new to LQ) so if you have troubles following what's going on in that page, please ask some more.
It appears that of particular importance is the option you need to pass to the sound module, by following the instructions on that page where the user describes adding a line to the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base like so:
options snd_hda_intel model=acer
I don't know why exactly the acer option causes so many of those machines' sound to work, but it seems to be so.
Also, I suggest that as well as adding that option line, you also run one or more of the following command(s) AFTER you have added that options line AND rebooted the machine:
shell$
sudo alsaconf
shell$
sudo alsamixer
shell$
sudo alsactl store
I will explain:
1) the first line: this is a tool that tries to configure your sound automatically, and make it ready to use. Your Kubuntu OS may or may not have this command, and it may or may not work, but try it anyhow. If it works, great!
2) the second line: this should start up the ALSA mixer panel. You can use this to turn up/down volume levels, and mute/unmute various mixer controls on your sound hardware. There should be on your system, a help page (type
man alsamixer in a console to see the manual)
3) Now the third line; this line is intended to SAVE the settings you set with alsamixer. After you ran alsamixer, when you're all done, hit ESCAPE to exit. Now, run that third command to save the settings, so they will be ready on next reboot, and you don't have to do this all the time.
Hope this gets you started
but if you have further troubles, just tell us what you tried, what's happening now, and we'll see what we can do.
PS -- if "model=acer" does not work for you, try "
model=laptop" or "
model=3stack"
Sasha
