Need help with sound

[Bugubu1]

Complete beginner with no idea what most of these commands do. My computer has been ubuntu'd for about half the day(windows decided to accuse of not having a legal operating system -which is completely not true- and locked itself up), and I'm learning quite a lot of stuff but I need to fix a problem with the audio badly, I have a big presentation coming up in 2 days. :(

This version is 10.4 and my laptop is an Asus G50V.

What do I need to do? I've checked some other threads and haven't had much results entering commands. Thank you in advance!

[timlev]

One thing you could try is alsamixer. To use it, hit Alt-F2 and type
gnome-terminal. Then type
alsamixer and trying moving the sound meters up and down with the keyboard arrows.

Good luck!

Otherwise, have you looked into PulseAudio?

[Bugubu1]

Tried changing values on alsamixer but hasn't been very productive.

I haven't heard of PulseAudio, how does it work?