ALSA / Sound help
Hi there

I'm using - Karmic 9.10

Basically I've tried to update my ALSA driver set to get my microphone working... I used the instructions found on the ubuntuforums entitled Acer Aspire Mic Fix... instuctions are posted at the end of this thread

I have an ACER and the mic problem seems to be a common issue.

Prior to this the sound was working well... a little quiet but it was fine... in fact everything on the UBUNTU install works perfectly. It's an outstanding little peice of software.

Now I've no sound at all, I've tried trying to diagnose the problem however can't seem to find anything specific to this issue.

My sound settings page is just blank on the hardware tab

Various tests have shown that the sound card is detected... but I can't seem to get it to be seen by the software

I've also tried the usual turning up the volume which sounds basic, but again is a common fix

Can any one help with this?

Many thanks

Dan

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Note - there is an extra space in the commands as I can't post Urls

Step 1: Download the latest from ALSA

Step 2:extract the contents. Open terminal and cd (change directory) to where you downloaded the driver e.g ~$cd Desktop Note: remember its case sensitive once in the correct directory untar the driver

Step 3:Compile the driver (note you need Check install if you don't have it use apt-get install to get it e.g sudo apt-get install checkinstall) then run the commands bellow takes a little while to do its thing

./ configure
make
sudo make install

Step 4:
Configure alsa-base.conf
Add the following line to the end of etc / modprobe.d / alsa-base.conf file I did this by using the command

sudo gedit / etc / modprobe.d / alsa-base.conf

I added these two lines at the end of the conf file then saved it
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=acer

Step 5:
Reboot and for me it worked hope this helps someone