Workaround to get sound on HP mini 1000 (or 1120 NR) with Jaunty

[kevindubrow]

9.04, sorry.

Edit: I undid all of the changes to my computer that would make my microphone work, but I still have no sound. I had a hunch anyway that that was not the problem, I randomly was no longer able to make calls in skype because of audio problems.

Edit 2: Sound randomly started working again. I still have all of the changes to fix the mic removed. Do you know of a different way to make the internal mic working without messing up the sound? Do you even think the changes were related to the sound going out? Thanks a lot...i know this is a lot to deal with.

[mozillar]

I tested my internal mic and it doesn't work with the fix I posted earlier. That's about what I expected. The focus so far seems to be more on the no sound from the speaker issue. There was a recent posting here that involves trying an update to the alsa driver, but that fix had it's own issues with volume control for me.

[kevindubrow]

Yeah, I'll try it tonight and edit this post to get back to you. Should I remove the fix you gave me first? If so, how should I go about doing that seeing as the package manager gave me a ton of extra packages when I selected the two you mentioned.

Oh and you want me to try the microphone fix after I use the fix from the link you just gave me, right?

[mozillar]

Removing the original fix would probably be best.

In Synaptic..Settings..Repositories: remove the two repos you added per my original fix. Then click reload.
In Synaptic..File..History: see what packages were added

I expect that will include:
+ alsa-source (1.0.19.dfsg-3ubuntu0~ppa0)
+ build-essential (11.4)
+ debconf-utils (1.5.26ubuntu3)
+ debhelper (7.0.17ubuntu4)
+ dpkg-dev (1.14.24ubuntu1)
+ fakeroot (1.12.1ubuntu1)
+ g++ (4:4.3.3-1ubuntu1)
+ g++-4.3 (4.3.3-5ubuntu4)
+ gettext (0.17-6ubuntu2)
+ html2text (1.3.2a-5)
+ intltool-debian (0.35.0+20060710.1)
+ kernel-package (11.015)
+ libmail-sendmail-perl (0.79.16-1)
+ libstdc++6-4.3-dev (4.3.3-5ubuntu4)
+ libsys-hostname-long-perl (1.4-2)
+ module-assistant (0.10.11ubuntu1)
+ patch (2.5.9-5)
+ po-debconf (1.0.15ubuntu1)

And these packages were likely updated:
+ alsa-base (1.0.18.dfsg-1ubuntu8) to 1.0.19.dfsg-3ubuntu0~ppa0
+ alsa-utils (1.0.18-1ubuntu11) to 1.0.19-2ubuntu0~ppa0
+ gdm (2.20.10-0ubuntu2) to 2.20.10-0ubuntu3~ppa0~xses1
+ libasound2 (1.0.18-1ubuntu9) to 1.0.19-1ubuntu0~ppa0
+ linux-sound-base (1.0.18.dfsg-1ubuntu8) to 1.0.19.dfsg-3ubuntu0~ppa0

Remove the packages that were added ONLY.

Also click the Status button and look under the Installed (local or obsolete) section. If alsa-modules-2.6.28-11-generic is there, you can safely remove it. You should now be back where you started from.

Yeah, it's a lot of work. I'm hoping the update to alsa will be a less involved way of fixing the sound issue.

[kevindubrow]

I'm just going to keep a log of what happens:

Ok, I removed every package you mentioned, including the one in the Installed (local or obsolete) section.

I restarted. When everything loaded up, the front and headphone controls in the volume control were still muted at start up like they were when I had your fix installed. When I unmuted them, I had no sound so I ignored it as anything.

After running the sudo dpkg -i alsa-driver-linuxant_1.0.19.2_all.deb command from the steps given in the link, the terminal hung for awhile before I got an error box that said "volume control has shut down unexpectedly. Reload. Don't reload." I picked don't reload and the speaker icon disappeared from the taskbar. After this happened, the terminal was done with the process that it was hanging on.

I was supposed to add "options snd-hda-intel model=laptop" to "the end of the alsa-base file" but there was nothing in it...so I couldn't really put it in at the end...I just threw it in there and hit save.

I then had to add "options snd-hda-intel model=laptop" (the same thing) to the "end of the options file" but yet again, there was nothing previously in there so I just threw it in there and saved.

I restarted the computer according to the steps, and still noticed that there was no speaker icon in the taskbar.

I opened the sound manager through the terminal like the steps told me and unmuted everything and I have sound.



-Just some issues though.

I have no sound icon, whys that?

My volume bar (via the volume up and down buttons on the keyboard) only goes halfway down before I can not hear anything from the speakers.



Ok, I'm glad this worked! Now...shuld I try to see if that microphone fix works?

[mozillar]

Your alsa-base.conf file should not have been empty. I think you created a new alsa-base. when you wanted alsa-base.conf

/etc/modprode.d/alsa-base.conf is the full path to the file

As for the missing volume control, I've got no idea.

I took another look at the mic fix you originally tried. You can try implementing that again, but I have a feeling some of those changes will overwrite/break the speaker fix you just applied, especially the alsa-base package. So for the time being, you may have to choose speaker sound over the mic. I hoping some progress can be made on bug #318942 soon, so there isn't this trade-off.

[kevindubrow]

The file you told me about in your last post didn't exist on my computer.

I used the terminal to open the alsa file, but when I tried to add the options snd-hda-intel model=laptop line to it, I got an error that said that the file did not exist.

[mozillar]

Sorry, I am stumped then. If you find a solution, please post back here.

If/when Ubuntu releases a fix, I will post it here as well.

[kevindubrow]

Sure thing. Thanks a lot for the help!

[Downtuned]

Sadly I tried everything on this thread and read every related post I could find, still nothing, I made a bootable usb drive with 8.4 on it and tried it on my mini and like I expected there was not a problem with sound at all, or anything else for that matter, so I decided to install it and now my wireless isn't working Dx
When i click connect to network and after I enter in the encryption key and click connect it seems like rejects my key after a while even though I've checked a thousand times it's typed in correctly, weird.

The proprietary drivers for my card where disabled by default, after enabling them and rebooting it still won't connect.