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Stefan Pynappels:
Ok, this is a continuation from the Windows 7 thread.
We had established that Vista sucked, Windows 7 had good potential, but Linux Mint was also worth looking at. Darren downloaded and tried it, thought it was great but could not get sound to work.
The project now is to get that sorted out for him, but I thought I'd not be cheeky and post this in project logs.........
So First things first:
Can you post make and model of the laptop you are using please Darren? also include details of the Graphics and Sound controllers (Make and model).
It looks like ALSA (sound driver package in Linux) is not recognising your Audio Controller. If we can switch this on you should be good to go.
Darren:
This is what comes up as my audio devices
High Definition Audio Device
Realtek High Definition Audio
Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device
The complete details are below, but the main details are
Asus A7A
AMD Turion 64x2 1.9Ghz 32 bit
Hope that helps?
Don't worry about time on my part, no matter if it takes days as I can swap between Vista and Linux to keep going :thumbup:
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Computer Name: Amithea-6jvbczq (in WORKGROUP)
Profile Date: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:33:37 AM
Advisor Version: 8.1b
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Operating System System Model
Windows Vista Ultimate (build 6000)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States) ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7U 1.0
System Serial Number: NF1S7C25140552
Enclosure Type: Notebook
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.90 gigahertz AMD Turion 64 X2
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded Board: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7U 1.0
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. A7UAS.2 10/09/2007
Drives Memory Modules c,d
250.06 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
199.45 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20N ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]
SanDisk Cruzer Fleur USB Device [CD-ROM drive]
SanDisk Cruzer Fleur USB Device (1.02 GB) -- drive 1, s/n
TOSHIBA MK2552GSX [Hard drive] (250.06 GB) -- drive 0, s/n Y84YT4HPT, rev LV010A, SMART Status: Healthy 1792 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' has 1024 MB
Local Drive Volumes
Stefan Pynappels:
Hi Darren, that is great, I'll get a proper look at it later, but the Realtek Audio driver does sometimes cause issues.
Just as an aside, it is probably better to delete everything below the following section, as there is some personal info there. There is enough info there for me to work on.
Slot 'DIMM0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' has 1024 MB
Local Drive Volumes
Stefan Pynappels:
Ok, lets try the easiest thing first. Have you ever user a Linux terminal before? It is basically just you typing command directly to the Operating System, rather than clicking on buttons to do a task. Scary at First!
So, I need you to open a terminal. It will be under Applications or Programs or something, I don't have a Linux Mint machine in front of me at the moment.
Then Click on Terminal and a text window will open. This is the most powerful part of any Linux system.
type in the following, and press enter.
alsamixer
This will give you a very basic graphic mixer, and pushing the Up-Arrow on your keyboard will increase the volume here. Even if you have already done it from the toolbar or desktop, this one is independent. Put it up to maximum.
Now see if you have sound! If not, we will go to the next step.
Darren:
Ok, done that, easy enough.
Master (and all others) already at max but I played with them just to be sure.
No change, still no sound.
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