Thanks,
I delved in and switched everything on, quite a few were off, but still nothing
I found this
the way I got sound working was while I was using linux mint 6. It refused to do the sound thing constantly until I found a bit on hp's site. As a consequence I added these 2 lines to my alsa-base.conf file
options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1
So I had a search for the confg file in question and it seems it's not installed?
Next I tried to install it
But I get a message "Could not find package alsa-base.conf"
TBH I'm getting a bit out of my depth here ...
