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His Royal Freshness
September 7th, 2011, 12:36 AM
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1835172&page=2

I followed the advice in the quoted text, and like I said, I ended up losing audio~

After some time though, I've found out that I have audio on FireFox and SNES, but not in Banshee or Movie Player, nor do I get the startup sound.


EDIT: I tried this (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+question/136772) after a friend showed it to me, who knows Linux. Unfortunately for me, he left not long afterward, and left me, a complete nub, to decipher it. So I tried doing this:



Step 2: Run the following command (copy/paste command into the Terminal and then hit <enter>)
gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
In the gedit editor, scroll down to the last lines of the alsa-base.conf file and ADD these 2 lines to the end of the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file (with the file open inside the gedit editor!):
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=targa-8ch-digidk if I even did it right. What I did was I opened the gedit and pasted those last two lines at the bottom of it. It didn't seem right, but it's all I could figure to do. It didn't work.


EDIT 2: Looking around some more, I found this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1543267&page=1), so I tried its first suggestion. This popped up:


freshyfresh@DEATHHOUSE:~$ rm -r ~/.pulse ~/.asound*
rm: cannot remove `/home/freshyfresh/.asound*': No such file or directory
freshyfresh@DEATHHOUSE:~$ sudo rm /etc/asound.conf
[sudo] password for freshyfresh:
rm: cannot remove `/etc/asound.conf': No such file or directory

His Royal Freshness
September 7th, 2011, 11:29 PM
Done more troubleshooting today. Went the #ubuntu and someone did !alsa when I popped my question. Looked at th sites and began going through the steps, found out that I can't even open Sound Preferences.

Pic related:
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September 8th, 2011, 03:43 PM
Your main mistake was using a really old version of the ALSA update script. Use the latest found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1681577

Also, do this to make sure you don't have any corrupt pulseaudio files:

rm -rf ~.pulse*Log out and back in.


idk if I even did it right.
That was the correct procedure for editing alsa-base.conf, assuming the targa-8ch-dig keyword was correct (which it probably wasn't unless you have the exact same mobo/laptop as the post you got it from). I recommend putting the file back to how it was.

If, after installing latest ALSA, you still have issues run the alsa-info.sh script in that link and post the link/output.