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    Ubuntu Sound Issues with Asus W3J

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by rj686, Jan 12, 2007.

  1. rj686

    rj686 Notebook Consultant

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    I'm getting no sound whatsoever running an Ubuntu box on my w3j. Ubuntu finds my card (supposedly i have a hda-intel card?) and i have the codecs installed. I also checked to see if anything is muted and nothing is muted. I'm not having much luck on the ubuntu forums so I thought I'd ask here ;)
     
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    Fittersman Wanna trade?

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    I just had the same problem but i have a few questions for you about whats happening...

    has sound ever worked? (mine just decided it wanted to quit one day)
    what version are you on? (im on edgy 6.10)

    how i fixed it was i went into system --> Administration --> Symnatec

    once in there i searched for alsa and reinstalled the package, apparently this happens every once in a while to people at random times and the reinstallation of alsa fixes it....

    heres my thread on ubuntu forums if you care to check it out
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=336493

    good luck
     
    Fittersman, Jan 12, 2007
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  3. rj686

    rj686 Notebook Consultant

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    I ended up getting it to work. I found a hda-intel article on the ubuntu wiki and compiled the alsa driver lib and utils from source. Whatever the version is in the repos it's not correct. Needless to say my sound works fine now :)
     
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  4. Fittersman

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    good to hear :D
     
    Fittersman, Jan 13, 2007
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