Installing audio driver on Santa Rosa - Solved

[Anstrell]

I've got no sound right now and my first guess is that I need to install a new driver.

First I need to find out what hardware I have and that doesn't show on the receipt of my laptop. So question no. 1 is; how do I find that out?

[Snowhog]

Re: Installing audio driver

Let's actually start with simple questions/answers first. What make/model of laptop do you have? As to identifying the sound chip, open a console and type:

lspci -v | grep Audio

This will list the audio driver in your laptop

[Anstrell]

Re: Installing audio driver

I've got this one at the moment:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
(rev 03)

[Snowhog]

Re: Installing audio driver

Make and model of your laptop??

[Anstrell]

Re: Installing audio driver

It's a Zepto 3215. Core 2 duo 1.8, 2 GB, 160 GB, Santa rosa chipset.

Edit 1:
I'm onto something. I'm trying this script that is supposed to work with Ubuntu.
http://ubuntu-bossieman.blogspot.com...h8-family.html

For anyone that car read Swedish:
http://ubuntu-bossieman.blogspot.com...h8-family.html


Edit 2:
No luck.

[v_override]

Re: Installing audio driver

Does this help you any further ?

http://linuxtechie.wordpress.com/200...work-in-gutsy/

[Anstrell]

Re: Installing audio driver

It seems nice. How do I open the software properties?

"So in order to fix this all you need to do is open the Software Properties, go to the Updates tab, and enable the Gutsy Backports."

[v_override]

Re: Installing audio driver

If you're using Adept Manager....

Open Adept Manager, go to Adept, "manage repositories" or something....I'm using a Dutch version, so the translation might be wrong.

Then, select the "updates" page and it should be on there.

[Snowhog]

Re: Installing audio driver

Before going that route, try this first: Edit as root, your /boot/grub/menu.lst file (use Konqueror Web Browser, navigate to /boot/grub and right-click on menu.lst and select Actions | Edit as Root) and add acpi=off to the end of the first kernel line entry. Save and perform a normal shutdown/reboot. If this works for you (it does for me on my Toshiba because of a buggy DSDT file used by the BIOS) you should have working sound (you may have to ensure that KMix isn't muted and that you have system sounds enabled). If not, you can reedit the file and remove the acpi=off and you're back to where you started.

[v_override]

Re: Installing audio driver

You might wanne try Snowhogs advise first, since he's more advanced than me .

If it doesn't work out and if you don't use Adept Manager, you can always enable it, by editing the

/etc/apt/sources.list.

[Anstrell]

Re: Installing audio driver

I tried Snowhogs thing first with no change. I'm not sure I did it correctly though. It now looks like this:
# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)acpi=off
# grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
# grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
# and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.

[Snowhog]

Re: Installing audio driver

Nope, not right. This is the section in the menu.lst file you want to add the acpi=off to:

## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=3cb6e1de-7583-47a4-b487-58f1502c63a2 ro acpi=off
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet

Note, that mine above may look just slightly different than yours. But it's the kernel line entry that you want to add the acpi=off to.

[Anstrell]

Re: Installing audio driver

This time I think i did it right but it didn't work. Any other ideas?

[v_override]

Re: Installing audio driver

Well.....if you've tried Snowhows tip (one that was new to me, thx 4 sharing Snowhog and you've tried the Adept trick or editing the file /etc/apt/sources.list and none of them worked....then I'm sorry, but I'm out.

My knowledge of Kubuntu is still limited

[Snowhog]

Re: Installing audio driver

Start with the Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide v0.5e posted by LordRaiden on the Ubuntu Forum.