[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!

[wladicus]

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,

[Mikorist]

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,

For new hardware i prefer Suse Linux now...
Provides better new hardware drivers for my Audio & Video cards -
better than Windows.


Acer Aspire One:
Acer Aspire One - openSUSE


If you have HP MIE - this is really just a modified UBUNTU Hardy Heron (8.04.1).

Acer Aspire One on Ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
From: Install Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04.1) on the Acer Aspire One

AUDIO:

Out of the box there are various issues with the sound. These range from headphone detection not functioning correctly, to the internal MIC not working. There are solutions to these problems. Currently, however, there is no known way to get everything working at once. All of the steps begin the same way, rebuilding ALSA:

sudo apt-get install module-assistant
sudo m-a update
sudo m-a prepare
sudo m-a a-i alsa
sudo alsa force-unload
sudo depmod -ae
sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel

Add the following line to the end of /etc/modules in order to ensure that the module is loaded during bootup:

snd-hda-intel

Now we need to make a choice. To have the internal MIC non-functional (external works), but sound working after suspend and resume, we edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base (gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base) and add the following line to the bottom:

options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba

Reboot for that to take effect.

To have the internal MIC function correctly, but no sound after suspending and resuming the computer add or change the following to the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base as before:

options snd-hda-intel model=auto

Again, reboot for this to take effect.

For some unknown reason some people don't hear any sound with either option. If you experience this problem you might want to use the option in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base as before to the following to resolve this problem:

options snd-hda-intel model=acer

For A150L, model=basic seems to work fine with alsa 1.018rc3 (internal mic and sound work after suspend; plugging headphone in does turn the speakers off)

options snd-hda-intel model=basic

According to the ArchWiki alsa version 1.018 and up contains a new dedicated audio model option for the Acer aspire one that can be used instead:

options snd-hda-intel model=acer-aspire

If you experience crackling sound after rebooting, insert the following line in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist:

blacklist snd_pcsp

Optional: The default sound level is low. Open a terminal and type alsamixer to adjust volume.


Here you have ALSA Upgrade Script (if you have after that issues with the sound) :

[all variants] ALSA Upgrade Script - Ubuntu Forums

You have there Attached File : AlsaUpgrade-1.0.x-rev-1.16.tar

Short Alsa-Upgrade script install instructions:
1. download the script and save it somewhere
2. cd <your-download-dir>
3. tar xvf AlsaUpgrade-1.0.x-rev-1.16.tar
4. sudo chmod 777 AlsaUpgrade-1.0.x-rev-1.16.sh
4. sudo ./AlsaUpgrade-1.0.x-rev-1.16.sh -di

Cheers !

[wladicus]

Originally Posted by Mikorist

Hi,
For new hardware i prefer Suse Linux now...
Provides better new hardware drivers for my Audio & Video cards -
better than Windows. ...
Cheers !

Mikorist,
Thank you your you valuable input!
Cheers,