On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:20:26PM +0000, kazman1914 wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm having trouble getting my sound card to work on my laptop with any
> Linux distro. This is curious, because back when I first thought
> about installing Linux I had Ubuntu 6.10, and the sound card worked
> fine.
>
> I've been searching the internet for a Linux driver for my laptop
> (=Toshiba Satellite A-135-S4407), but can't find one. Any ideas?
Yes, they've made various improvements, <snicker> in sound--as one
Fedora developer wrote on some list or another, "Now we're giving people
choices, none of which work."
It's possible that you can fix it on Ubuntu with the following.
Whatever sound card it is, e.g., if it were using the snd_hda_intel
module, you can try adding the following to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba
This problem has been more prevalent on the Acers but but I've seen the
fix listed for Toshiba as well.
To figure out what module is being used try
lsmod |grep snd
There will be several things, but hopefully, one will indicate what's
being used for your hardware. Then, as you might have noted, even
though the module has underscores, e.g., snd_hda_intel in the alsa-base
file do it with hyphens, snd-hda-intel.
This is just a guess and not a guarantee. I believe the problem is with
the theoretical improvements various distros have made to how the system
deals with sound. I don't think that it has anything to do with the dual
boot thingie.
--
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