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Trouble shooting sound procedure

Asked by avhation

Is this trouble shooting procedure ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure) applicable to Hardy Heron - I cannot get th elink at Step 1 to work. I have several ALSA packages installed including ALSA base and ALSA utils. I have spent 2 days trying to get sound back after trying to get recorder to work and may have broken something.

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avhation (hall-37honorwood) said : 		#1

Please ignore the reference to the link. My question is simply is th eprocedure applicable to 8.04. Thanks

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#2

I am afraid the ALSA upgrade procedure only works correctly on Ubuntu 9.04 or Ubuntu 9.10. I have seen other people also have issues upgrading ALSA on Ubuntu 8.04.

I suggest doing a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10 - while preserving the data on your /home directory - and then following the ALSA upgrade procedure here:

http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2009/08/31/upgrade-alsa-1-0-21-on-ubuntu-jaunty-9-04/

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avhation (hall-37honorwood) said : 		#3

Thank you. This answer confirms my pessimistic thought that it seemed too good to be true that the procedure applied to all earlier iterations of Ubuntu, as implied.