Re: onboard sound with ubuntu

[Matthew Whiting]

Apparently final release of Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) is due out in under a week so will do a clean install in my old windows partition. According to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=72426 the kernel is 2.6.12.6 so sounds good. Just requires a little more patience ;o) Could have a go at the release candidate but a stable release is the preferable option for me right now! Cheers Nick for your help On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:40:58 +1300 Matthew Whiting wrote: So Matthew let us know what you have done :-) Two packages were already installed with ubuntu - alsa-base (alsa driver configuration files) and alsa-utils. As I couldn't get a sound out of the machine (trying to open volume control told me "No volume control elements and/or devices found.") I embarked on a journey to get it working and yep had a go at installing the latest alsa drivers. Sounds like this may have been a mistake then?! :-( Quite possibly, so lets try to undo it. All is not lost! Since starting writing this message I have booted my installed ubuntu system which reveals that the the necessary module for your soundcard is not installed by ubuntu. You will recall from the previous thread that Eliot pointed out that the correct module is: snd-hda-intel (I assume hda=High Definition Audio?) (see here http://lists.ethernal.org/cantlug-0508/msg00007.html ) Anyway I can find no trace of that module in my ubuntu install, or in the kernel configs for ubuntu. It appears that the driver was only introduced into the kernel at 2.6.12, whereas you are using 2.6.10. The options seem to me to be: Install a later kernel (easy to do if ubuntu have a 2.6.12 or later kernel available.) Consider recompiling your 2.6.10 kernel to exclude the alsa drivers and then install the separate alsa-drivers Wait for the next ubuntu (due October?) does anyone know what kernel will be in that? PS http://www.kernelhq.org has a great browser that enables you to see the entire version history of any part of the kernel, including diffs between any two versions. Brilliant. Click on "History" on their front page then drill down through the kernel tree on the left hand side (in this case click on Sound then PCI then hda then hda_intel.c, and follow your nose)