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alsa-driver package

cannot overwrite alsa driver, .24 not .25

Asked by Terry Carruthers on 2012-07-03

Have no sound in a clean install of 12.04 (3.2.0.26). Have followed the steps on the SoundTroubleshooting Proceedure page and under the ALSA Version, the Driver Version remains 1.0.24 whereas the Library and Utilities versions are 1.0.25 which apparently will cause sound problems. I have checked commonly recommended fixes and ensured that muting is off in alsamixer. Hardware worked fine in previous windows installation and hear a power bump when rebooting.

After running the script in Step 1 on the STP page, on reboot there was a login option of Others along with my regular login acct, is this of any significance? Was I supposed to be in superuser mode when following STP steps?
Thanks

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Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu alsa-driver Edit question

Assignee:: No assignee Edit question

Solved by:: Mark Rijckenberg

Solved:: 2012-07-05

Last query:: 2012-07-05

Last reply:: 2012-07-05

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said on 2012-07-05:

Please execute step 2, then send us the full terminal output from step 3
and step 4 from this procedure:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure

We need the Terminal output itself, not your interpretation of the output.

Please also specify the exact model and make of your PC (if known).

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Terry Carruthers (terry-carruthers) said on 2012-07-05:

On 12-07-05 11:50 AM, Mark Rijckenberg wrote:
> Your question #202193 on alsa-driver in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+question/202193
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Mark Rijckenberg requested more information:
> Please execute step 2, then send us the full terminal output from step 3
> and step 4 from this procedure:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure
>
> We need the Terminal output itself, not your interpretation of the
> output.
>
> Please also specify the exact model and make of your PC (if known).
>
Thanks for the response, I believe the problem is solved. I had gone
thru the various solutions suggested in the answer thread with no
success. The system is home built with a Asus motherboard, about 5 years
old. Worked fine with windows XP until drive crashed and previously
worked with earlier versions of Ubuntu. Had both onboard Intel HDA and
a Rocketfish RF-7.1 SDCD sound card which was what I had been using. I
first disabled the onboard sound and rebooted, no success but when I
renabled the onboard, removed the soundcard and rebooted everything
appears to work correctly.
Terry