Comments on: Vostro (1400) + Ubuntu 9.04 + sound issues

By: LnddMiles

LnddMiles — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:22:32 +0000

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By: Max

Max — Sun, 24 May 2009 01:52:39 +0000

Huh, weird. There’s a reason restarting is always the first thing to try…

By: lex

lex — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:02:42 +0000

well unfortunately I left the battery unplugged from my laptop then the sound didnt work when I plugged it back in. The sound worked after a full restart. restarts depend on certain things I guess, I am using my HDA alsa mixer

By: Max

Max — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:51:01 +0000

Awesome — and good news that a restart isn’t always (ever?) required.

By: lex

lex — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:45:44 +0000

Thanks for that, it worked as soon as I saved the file. No restart needed, running ubuntu 9.04

By: Max

Max — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:40:43 +0000

Yeah, this was another change on the level of making the wireless light on laptops flicker, I think — someone thought it was a good idea, someone else approved it, but there wasn’t a sanity check by the Canonical team. I’m not suggesting design by committee, but…someone needs to take a step back and realize this was a bad idea.

On the other hand, I wouldn’t mind a configuration option to mute the sound at startup at boot — nothing quite like a loud startup chime in the middle of class or something. Though, the easier solution would be just to change the Sounds configuration to remove the startup and login sounds….

By: justme

justme — Sun, 10 May 2009 10:16:39 +0000

I use Kubuntu 9.04 and had no sound in Amarok and Songbird. Amarok was working after I installed kubuntu-restricted-extras I think (I’m actually not sure, because I installed some others too, which I don’t remember ^^). As Songbird still had no sound, just some noise came out of the boxes, I looked into the sound mixer through the tray sound Icon. I turned Surround, Center, LFE and PCM to unmute because they where set to mute, Finally I have sound – but why should they be set to unmute from start, what were those developers thinking?!

By: Max

Max — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:58:14 +0000

Interesting. It’s possible that there may be multiple solutions to this particular problem. Thanks for the heads up! I wonder which one is more “correct” — probably your solution, since it changes the actual model configuration that is used…

By: kai

kai — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:15:01 +0000

hello, I find here by the same problem.
I used to work at 7.10 with the same problem, the solution to the problem is to add “options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1 model=3stack” to /etc/modprobe.conf
When updating to 9.04, I make changes as in 7.10, but it doesn’t work this time. I found the page
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3796486&postcount=1
and change “options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1 model=3stack” to “options snd-hda-intel model=dell-3stack” and edit “alsa-utils” as you told, restart and it works!. Then I
comment lines added in “alsa-utils”, restart and it also works. You can have a try, may be could help.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:02:45 +0000

I had the same problem. My volume was turned all the way down and the only way to fix it was to run alsamixer from the terminal.