Comments on: Simple guide to Sound Solutions for Hardy,Intrepid and Jaunty Jackalope Users

By: h

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:46:30 +0000

whew….. thanks a lot man very long but very very helpfull to the least detail of it

By: rajat

rajat — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:57:02 +0000

thanx from deep of my heart.you solved my problem for which i was wondering here and there but all in vain

By: Sendhil

Sendhil — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:42:50 +0000

Thanks for a great article.

Was having sound coming from both the laptop internal speaker and the headphone at the same time…Fujitsu A6110 running Ubuntu 8.04…and it has the Intel 82801H HD audio controller…which seems to have caused some problems to a lot of people…including myself!

Your article has helped me in now muting the internal speaker while the headphone still plays …though when i unplug the headphones…i have to manually unmute the front sliders in the volume control!
Thanks a lot!

By: andrew

andrew — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:43:15 +0000

thank you! not sure which step did it, but i now have sound!

By: trellis

trellis — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:10:50 +0000

Thanks. I’ll bookmark this and try fixing my sound when I have time.

I must say, though, that Ubuntu Jaunty NBR is far from ready for general, public use. I would not inflict on my Mother, say, the hours I’ve spent trying to get sound to work in Skype and generally, disabling the trackpad while typing, getting Flash to be responsive on an Intel video chipset, tracking down bugs. It’s comical. Linux users really should place a higher value on their time.

By: p3rdet

p3rdet — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:50:12 +0000

w00t, sound again Thanks for writing an excellent article!

By: hsidhi

hsidhi — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:14:55 +0000

Thank you for the article. This is solved my problem. Using Jaunty on Axioo laptop (VIA82xx).

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:35:36 +0000

Sorry, didn’t mention the important parts…
Couldn’t get the sound to work on 8.04 then upgraded to 8.10 and like I said before, the sound worked once until I reboot the system.
If you are frustrated with getting your sound working, give this article a try, worked for me.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:33:57 +0000

This article is awesome. I was able to get my sound to work on Dell D630 after tweaking the settings, then after a reboot sound was GOOOOONNNNE! UGH!
I read a ton of articles and instructions and things have just gotten very confusing since I’m new to Linux. I wish I found this article sooner, it would`ve saved me a lot of time and frustration.
The only thing that I don’t like is that I can’t control the sound with the buttons on the laptop, only the Sound Control on display works for that, but a small price to pay…
Awesome and thanks for this article.

By: southern_mama

southern_mama — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:06:01 +0000

Thank you so much for your post. I am new to Linux, and your instructions were easy to follow and fixed my sound issues. Now I love Linux again.

By: Dixie Raj

Dixie Raj — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:23:23 +0000

Well, What should I say. Just an amazing problem solver article..

Earlier versions of ubuntu, I couldn’t find a way to enable my Audigy 2. this time around with Jaunty, I found the pulse audio installed by default and did some more changes with VLC player and Pulse audio volume (viz. move stream option)..

My firefox, amarok, movie player and VLC all works fine…

Thanks a Tonn.

Dixie Raj.

By: Dario

Dario — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:39:26 +0000

Hi:

Accidentally I discovered that when changing Volume Options Input source from Mic to Front Mic and back again, now IT WORKS!! Problem is that this operation must be performed each time machine is booted. This is without any doubt A BUG!

While somebody fix it I made this temporary fix.

In alsa-utils shell, make the following changes, near start option:
*********************************************
case “$1″ in
start)
EXITSTATUS=0
TARGET_CARD=”$2″
case “$TARGET_CARD” in
“”|all) TARGET_CARD=all ; log_action_begin_msg “Setting up ALSA” ;;
esac
if ! card_OK “$TARGET_CARD”; then
[ "$TARGET_CARD" = "all" ] && log_action_end_msg “$( [ ! "$2" ] ; echo $? ; )” “none loaded”
exit $?
fi
preinit_levels “$TARGET_CARD” || EXITSTATUS=1
if ! restore_levels “$TARGET_CARD” ; then
echo ” I couldnt restore values”
sanify_levels “$TARGET_CARD” || EXITSTATUS=1
restore_levels “$TARGET_CARD” >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
fi
# This two lines added by Dario. Put your own values here
switch_control “Input Source” “Front Mic”
switch_control “Input Source” “Mic”
*********************************************

Good luck!!

By: Dario

Dario — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:26:55 +0000

Hi: I just upgraded to jounty 9.04 and became so sad because my microphone still doesn’w work. I have spent more than 500 hours reading articles including this excellent one and nothing works!

I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FS295VP with HDA Intel - ALC 260 sound card. When using sound recorder, I can hear myself and the sound level bar shows a very good recording signal. However at playback time there is only less than 1% of the signal. What is funny is that Volume Control -> Recording shows Capture as muted all the time. I unmute it but it shows it muted when I see it.

By: Kiran

Kiran — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:38:58 +0000

Excellent article, thanks for writing this.

By: clara

clara — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:50:31 +0000

Thank you for this guide. I have followed it in order to fix some sound problems in my ubuntu jaunty. The problems were i lost sound in firefox (flash videos) when rythmbox was playing. I have an analog audio 1981 integrated audio card in the laptop (the Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)). But now i have other problem, each time i log out (close session) and log in again with the same user, the sound is lost in every applications. I have to reboot the laptop to recover sound. Do i miss something?.How i could fix it?
Regards

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:12:51 +0000

I’m using usb audio, actually a telex headset and/or a Samson Gtrack microphone/headset. I can get both to work for computer audio, with some fiddling, but I cant get flash audio to work even after this and 5 other fixes I’ve tried. It’s simply a serious software flaw in Ubuntu/flash. I’m wondering if an upgarde to jaunty will fix the problem or will I just be creating more headaches?

By: tecigurl

tecigurl — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:44:10 +0000

Thank you, thank you. Straightforward yet comprehensive

By: theron

theron — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:07:33 +0000

Finally!! This did the trick - I have only had very faint sounds since upgrading to Jaunty, now I can listen again. Thanks!!

By: olly

olly — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:13:30 +0000

After much suffering I found your guide.
It works wonderfully with Linux Mint 7.

I have tested also your proceedure with Skype for linux (i don’t use Skype) for several otherusers and after following your steps as outlned, then unticking “Skype control of mixer settings” and set it as well to use pulse for in and out sound, success can be had with Skype.

Thanks for an excellent and straightforward guide

By: cynthia

cynthia — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:14:40 +0000

after spending much time searching, this guide helped me. thanks a lot and more power!