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    how to reinstall audio driver?

    Hi,
    my audio does not work in ubuntu. I just replaced my mobo to asus m3a78. I used gigabyte mobo before and gigabyte use realtek chipset whereas asus uses VIA chipset I think.

    Is there a way to reconfigure the audio, I bet there's a driver conflict somewhere but if I can restart the audio configuration process (without reformatting and re-installing ubuntu), ubuntu will "know" which driver to use automatically.

    Can anyone help?

    Thank you

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    Lightbulb Re: how to reinstall audio driver?

    paste the output of these commands from the terminal
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    aplay -l && arecord -l
    Code:
    lspci -vvv
    Code:
    lsmod
    this should give a better insight as to what is going on here.
    Last edited by neu2buntu; April 10th, 2009 at 05:59 PM. Reason: dont need the hex readout ooops
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    Re: how to reinstall audio driver?

    The best thing to do would be to remove alsa and reinstall it. The same thing happened to me when I switched mobos and this fixed it.

    (1) Remove the ALSA packages

    sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils

    (2) Reinstall the same packages

    sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils

    Packages gdm and ubuntu-desktop are also removed in this process if you are using Gnome. They need to be reinstalled:

    sudo apt-get install gdm ubuntu-desktop

    If you are using xubuntu this will also happen to you

    sudo apt-get install gdm xubuntu-desktop

    (3) Reboot.
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    Re: how to reinstall audio driver?

    markbuntu,s idea seems a lot simpler than my method!!!! have to say a big up for markbuntu on your post here.this has got my sound working perfect with jack and pulseaudio for everything audio....thanks!!!!
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    Re: how to reinstall audio driver?

    Quote Originally Posted by neu2buntu View Post
    markbuntu,s idea seems a lot simpler than my method!!!! have to say a big up for markbuntu on your post here.this has got my sound working perfect with jack and pulseaudio for everything audio....thanks!!!!
    Are you running ubuntustudio/jack on your aspire one?
    I have an aspire one and am thinking of making it a portable ubuntustudio after jaunty release.
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    Re: how to reinstall audio driver?

    oh yes and it runs very smooth, other than the odd vst crashing lmms ardour and rosegarden. when an app crashes i need to reload pulseaudio (as in your tut) .. but it is definately a good notepad for ubuntu-studio..... i also upgraded the ram to 1.5gb(this is the max capable) myself.... ram cost £12 on ebay. .. i have uploaded a few basic demos on youtube some done on the aa1 ,so you could always look at them...... the url is on my profile(i think)
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    Re: how to reinstall audio driver?

    Ok, thanks. I will give it a try.

    Sorry to highjack your post pearlygate do you need anymore help?
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    Thumbs down Re: how to reinstall audio driver?

    yeah we kind of hijacked the post...

    the only 2 things i cant do an the acer that i can do on
    my "advent k4000-laptop" it boot the realtime kernel and boot backtrack!!! hmmm and i also flashed the bios to the latest version(as a result of a usb error had to this,had the black screen of death on bootup after doing a "cat" on my pendrive!?!) , although i have added the script to the "security" for realtime audio pref,i still think i need the rt-kernel though!!! , think this might be down to the bios only allocating 8mb vid ram at boot time(not changable) im not sure.......will post this 1 up if i cant find the answers!!!

    once again sorry for "hijacking" the post,but we will help with the audio problem(god i cant imagine my lappy withoput sound)
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    Re: how to reinstall audio driver?

    Let's move this to one of my threads

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843012

    Or we should start a new one "ubuntustudio on aspire one" or something in the multimedia production forum.
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    Thumbs down Re: how to reinstall audio driver?

    im not sure hmmmm probably a new thread would be better.
    you can kick start it (im the noob here ,remember!!!...lol) maybe a title "acer aspire one audio-studio" or something to that effect....
    there are a lot of aa1 users and im sure they would be interested to make the most of their "netbooks"... i know i push mine to the limit,but it hasnt went cold turkey yet (switched off through overheating or something) anyway how long have you been using ubuntu(linux) for markbuntu? you do really know your stuff,especially audio!!! i found ubuntu after being infected by ms viruses that even attacked the bios or bootloader(not sure), but will not be going back... would like to solve the rt-kernel prob though as i think 1.5gb is enough to run it??? ....ooooppppsss sorry for ranting .,im on the alcohol tonight...
    Last edited by neu2buntu; April 11th, 2009 at 12:40 AM. Reason: stupid typo...lol...
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