occasionally useful » Ubuntu http://blog.maxaller.name ruby, ubuntu, etc Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:00:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Vostro (1400) + Ubuntu 9.04 + sound issues http://blog.maxaller.name/2009/04/vostro-1400-ubuntu-904-sound-issues/ http://blog.maxaller.name/2009/04/vostro-1400-ubuntu-904-sound-issues/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:41:42 +0000 Max http://blog.maxaller.name/?p=142 Another Ubuntu upgrade, another sound configuration that doesn't work out of the box.  This is what I had to do for Ubuntu 8.10, that also worked for this version:

$ sudo vim /etc/init.d/alsa-utils

Around line 364, replace this

[ "$TARGET_CARD" = "all" ] && log_action_end_msg_and_exit "$EXITSTATUS"
exit $EXITSTATUS
;;
stop)

EXITSTATUS=0
TARGET_CARD="$2"

with

[ "$TARGET_CARD" = "all" ] && log_action_end_msg_and_exit "$EXITSTATUS"
exit $EXITSTATUS
;;
stop)
 ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig eth0 down
 EXITSTATUS=0
TARGET_CARD="$2"

Then restart.  In 9.04 I also had to go through my volume control panel and make sure nothing was turned all the way down or muted.  I think I had to unmute the master volume and turn PCM Playback (under HDA Intel) up.

Please comment if this helps you!

UPDATE April 29th, 2009: I also had to reinstall flash in order to get sound working in Firefox again.

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If you got your Ruby from a package manager, you have to get an extra package before reinstalling Ruby. If you built from source (as is currently the only way to get Ruby 1.9.1 on Ubuntu) then you still have to get the extra package, but you don't have to reinstall Ruby.

From the repository

  1. sudo aptitude install libopenssl-ruby1.9
  2. sudo aptitude install ruby1.9

From source

  1. sudo aptitude install libopenssl-ruby1.9
  2. cd ~/Downloads/ruby-1.9.1-p0/ext/openssl
  3. ruby extconf.rb && make && sudo make install

Note that if you haven't installed Ruby yet, you don't need to build the openssl gem manually -- I believe it will automatically get picked up during the regular Ruby 1.9.1 build process if all the dependencies are already there.

Disclaimer...

I'm not 100% sure these steps are accurate, so if they're not, please leave angry messages and I'll try to fix the directions. Otherwise, hope they help!

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