Hp pavilion 360n sound problem

More info:
Model: Hewllet Packard Pavilion 360n
Build year: Possibly 2001 or 2003
Model Condition: Old-used, working fine
Extra info: All other devices work, even video.

Sound should just work straight out of the box. Try double-clicking on the speaker icon up by the clock and click on the "Preferences" button to add a few channels at a time and make sure the volume levels are set about right rather than low or muted. Try this wiki otherwise :(

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/TroubleShooting

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Actually all of the channels are open and I installed xubuntu with wubi. Does that make any difference?
Also I use the digital input on the back of the computer and it's just a standard one with no fancy sound setup

lol, that should all be fine. When you say you use the "digital input"? For speakers? Before unplugging it and trying in different sockets make sure you turn at least the master volume by the clock right down or even mute it. It's bad enough when my neighbours complain about my noise but if they started complaining about yours then it could be tricky! If we are talking about a tiny little plug that looks like a fat pin and probably has 2 or 3 tiny bands of metal around it and is on the end of the speakers wire then that should go into one of the green sockets and i never get it right first time.

As far as Xubuntu within Windows as the Wubi install then i have to say that it often does produce problems and it's well worth 'migrating' it out and onto it's own partition
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#How%20do%20I%20migrate%20to%20a%20real%20partition,%20and/or%20get%20rid%20of%20Windows%20entirely?

I still think it's important to keep Windows but only as one option in the dual-boot rather than as the main OS. Some games and things work slightly better in Windows so most of us keep it working. Note that *buntu can read Windows stuff but Windows seldom is able to read linux stuff so i tend to keep a lot of my data on the Windows partition and so i only have 1 or 2Gb more than the recommended minimum for my *buntu.

There's no real difference between Ubuntu and Xubuntu, it's certainly not like the difference between Win98 and Xp! I think the main difference is a little bit of eye-candy (which i have mostly switched off anyway) and that yours started off mostly blue and mine was mostly 'earthy tones'. The gnome desktop is significantly heavier than the Xfce you have.

Anyway, good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Err if the sound is working in Windows but not in Xubuntu then you've go the plug in the right place so just try out migrating the Xubuntu and see if that fixes it.

Good luck from
Tom :)

Thanks for all the help tom, but this pc was really just a fall back that was only just an old pc out of the basement just in case my dads new pc crashed or had errors. I just got the old 360n out of the basement because my dads new pc had a dead graphics card and he had to put together some cash to buy a new one, Eventually he did and the new pc is fine now.

By the way, I get the difference between OSes and their different installations. In fact I'm not really new to linux, you should be telling this stuff to my dad! I really just did the wubi installation because let's say my father is a bit "nostalgic" and if I accidently screwed up the mbr of the hard drive of that computer he would freak out.

Well anyways thanks for the help!

Have a nice weekend,
John

Thanks, you too. Somewhere in here there is an answer to fixing the mbr from within Windows. I think it might be in the Wubi guide. I still think the proper dual-boot is the safest way to get a linux onto a system. Sometimes i've needed to stealth the linux so i set the default for it to boot into Windows and then when i've gone away for a while just set the timeout to 0. My dad got interested in Ubuntu so i've got a full proper unstealth'd linux and just have my own user account on his machine. He still seems more comfortable in Windows but one day i hope to change the dual-boot to default ito Ubuntu but i'm not holding my breath. Feels great to be honest again. :)

I think i might be newer to linux than you then! I had it on my machine for ages before i dared boot into it for long periods, prefering the multimedia apps and stuff in Windows but now i'm in Linux pretty much all the time.

lol, yeah I was a bit scared myself until I heard about wubi and wine. but your advice was helpful and I didn't even know that the sound driver package for ubuntu was alsa.

Once again thanks for the help

John

Alsa seems to be the main one but there's also pulse-audio which allows more than one stream at a time (unlike alsa allegedly). There are probably loads of others but those are the standard ones that most people use. When i'm just doing a spot of filing in here i tend to try the obvious first ;)