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pavel protin
April 3rd, 2010, 05:40 AM
hi.

i just installed karmic as sole OS on my macbook air. i followed these (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir1-1/Karmic) instructions. except, i am a complete noob, so i can't make heads or tails of command lines.

when it came to sound, i was able to (a) write the missing line into etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and (b) run depmod and reboot. but: part (c) of the instruction - "update the ramdisk" - was quite another story. in the documentation, it says i should use...

sudo update-initramfs -u -v -k `uname -r`

...but since i didn't know what to write instead of 'uname -r', i just left it out and ran the thing (seeing that the list of functions for that command said that this would update 'all' - of whatever). so.

sound still doesn't work. what did i do wrong?

thanx in advance!

pavel protin
April 3rd, 2010, 09:30 AM
done. the problem seems to have been was a typo in modprobe. 3rd time's the charm.