Trying to get sound working on my netbook (hp mini 1030nr)
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Trying to get sound working on my netbook (hp mini 1030nr)
I am running Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9 on a netbook HP Mini 1030nr.
Internet works out of the box and mobile broadband too. So far what I have had to do is to get the latest updates:
sudo apt-get update
in order to be able to download flash from deb based distributions and get it installed. This worked fine. Now, moving on to the next issue:
My sound doesn't work. I haven't played around with the sound settings, but I am curious to see if there is a clean, fast solution to this issue. I was tempted to go back to windows because of this but just the fact that my mobile broadband worked out of the box makes me think that there is hope for me:
Check with "aplay -l" (in terminal) that you have drivers loaded - it will list all active sound cards. If you see some (card 0, card 1, ...), try "low-level" mixer (in terminal too): "alsamixer". Set your volumes there, and it should work. Try playing some wav file with "aplay /usr/share/sounds/question.wav". If all these work, than maybe PulseAudio is causing some problems or is not configured properly. I removed all pulse* stuff from my Ubuntu, and all works great.
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