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Originally Posted by SamWatson  My work college has asked me to tank a look at her sons notebook... ive never ever used linux before, but have managed to figure mot of it out...
but there is no osun coming from it when you play music or videos... theres sound form the pre-installed game... but nothing else.
Cant seem to find any drivers for it.. the acer site offers me very little..
any suggestions?
thanks for the help! |
Hi Sam,
I have Linux Kubuntu running on one of my desktops. At one point when I was downloading program updates etc., I also experienced the loss of sound almost exactly as you have described.
Here is what I did.
My desktop is similar to an XP desktop with a bar at the bottom of the screen for accessing tray icons etc. just like in XP. One of the tray icons is a speaker. If you do not have a tray icon then maybe a different icon appears somewhere on your screen.
If you cannot find any such icons then the name of the program that controls all the sound (in my case anyway) is called KMix.
The next option is to go to your Menu system and find a heading that says something like "System Settings". Clicking on this should pop up a window that has several options, among them "Computer Administration" - and an icon of a speaker should be there with the title "Sound System".
Click on the speaker icon and another window appears. Under the General tab, at the top left of the window it says
[ ] Enable the Sound System. Make sure the box is
[√] checked. Then at the bottom middle of the window there is a button that says
[Test Sound] When you click this a sample sound will play. After this be sure to click on the
[Apply] button at the bottom right. Exit the window. Now the sound should work.
If you cannot find anything similar to what I have described then try searching all the menus for either the KMix file or something that looks like it might be a sound control program.
If you cannot find anything then you would have to download KMix . This can be done simply by opening the Main Menu (I don't know what your system calls it - KMenu?) and you should see an item "Add/Remove Programs" .
Click on this item. After the loader has finished doing its thing you will see a smallish window with the heading "Adept Installer". In the top left Search box type the word
KMIX . The KMix Sound Mixer icon should appear in the listing area. Check the box next to it. Click on the button at the bottom right
[Apply Changes].
Then it will tell you that the file is downloading. When it tells you that the installation is complete click the
[Quit] button at the bottom right of the window.
If you still cannot get results then we have a Linux expert (
Mikorist) who frequents this forum occasionally. Leave him a message concerning your problem and he is likely to contact you with some other possible solutions.
Cheers,
