Sorry, this is an extraordinarily boring post for everyone but a nice reference for me and it might help someone in the same situation as me.
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 on my Toshiba Tecra A8 and found that sound from my speakers weren’t working (although the headphones were). I had a bit of a look around and had to cross reference a few bits on information I’d found in order to get it to work.
But to cut to the chase, I opened gedit as root by typing the following in the terminal window:
sudo gedit
the opened the file
/etc/modprobe.d/asla-base
and added the following line to the bottom
options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 model=basic
I then ran
update-modules
Although I’m not 100% that did anything. And then I rebooted and it worked.
Hope that’s helpful to someone.
Michal Says:
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:11 amVisit Michal
Great instruction.
I simply typed in on my Ubuntu 6.10 (Tecra A8) and after reboot the sound works.
Thanks
Hammy Says:
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:32 amVisit Hammy
I’m pleased it helped Michal, that’s exactly why I wrote the post!
martin-g Says:
January 6th, 2008 at 6:02 amVisit martin-g
i had the same problem, but this simple instruction works relly good. thank you much.
Akira Says:
February 29th, 2008 at 6:59 pmVisit Akira
Does the jack sense work with that option? The jack sense didn’t work with the basic model when I was troubleshooting this issue (although I didn’t add the other parameters). Instead, I used this line:
options snd-hda-intel model=hippo
The jack sense works properly so the speakers are muted when I plug in my headphones. Also, I can choose to unmute the speakers even with the headphones if I want to.
Hammy Says:
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:28 amVisit Hammy
Hi Akira, are you talking about the headphone jack?
My headphone jack always worked, it was just the speakers that didn’t. However the speakers would not mute when I plugged the headphones in - you have to do that manually so perhaps your solution is better than mine.
Thanks for the info though.
nan Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 12:43 amVisit nan
Hi people! my laptop is a Toshiba Tecra A8 model pta83a (purchased in spanish dixons shop).I work arround of this problem all day, and finally the line sugested by Akira works fine (mute speakers when plug headphones):
options snd-hda-intel model=hippo
Thanks a lot
nan
Hammy Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 10:29 amVisit Hammy
Nan, I actually just tried this again with Akira’s suggestion (after upgrading to 8.04) and yes, it work perfectly.
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December 3rd, 2008 at 1:40 pmVisit Goonanism » Ubuntu 8.10
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