Getting the sound to work on Ubuntu Jaunty
After installing Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) on my new HP DV6-1280us machine, my main problem was that the sound is complete dead. I see no errors when I try to play anything. there is just no sound. taking a closer look at my Sound Card: ~$ lspci | grep -i audio 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc R700 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4000 Series] After a while of googling around, I came across this post on ubuntu forums If you have the same sound card. (which is in most DV6, DV7 series of HP) This will probably be useful to you as well. Briefly, you'll need to download, compile and install the alsa driver. and modify configuration of alsa-base.conf as follows: wget -c ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2 wget -c ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-1.0.21.tar.bz2 wget -c ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.21.tar.bz2 tar xvf alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2 tar xvf alsa-lib-1.0