On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, people. Two more gremlins today: sound card vanished, i.e. not just > no sound, but 'internal audio' not found in audio hardware; and 'shut > down' vanished from main user menu. Did a hard shut down using the power > button, restarted, everything back to normal. This is undoubtedly > hardware, isn't it - and the machine just one month out of guarantee... >
The typical thing for sound is to run the alsa-info.sh utility that grabs all the hardward info of your sound card and helps in figuring out what went wrong. To do this, run wget www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh -O alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh You will be prompted to send the report to www.alsa-project.org; answer Yes and write down the URL given. Finally, post the URL here in the reply so we can help. In addition to this, you should be somewhat wary when people ask you to run command on your computer. The command I mention above is referenced in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting and the website I mention is the official Alsa website (http://www.alsa-project.org). Normally you do not get anymore a 'Shutdown' menu option under the System menu, since the Indicator Applet has the Shutdown functionality. Which version of Ubuntu do you use? There is a difference in the shutdown button between 10.04 and previous versions. Simos -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
