[ubuntu-uk] technical question

[norman]

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> >
> >> Please can you open a terminal and type the following:
> >>
> >> lspci | grep Audio
> >>
> >> and post the output of the line you get in return to the list?
> >
> > norman at gruber:~$ lspci | grep Audio
> > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)
> > norman at gruber:~$
> 
> A quick google of the output from that command and "ubuntu" came up  
> with the following:
> 
> ===================================
> 
>   Re: Audio (SB450) stopped working after upgrading to 7.04
> Quote:
> Originally Posted by djails View Post
> To all of you with a ATI SB450 sound problem in feisty:
> If your sound card is an ATI SB450 in a toshiba laptop like mine which  
> used to work in edgy but not in feisty anymore, here is the solution  
> given to me on the alsa-devel ML:
> Code:
> 
> sudo rmmod snd-hda-intel
> sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel probe_mask=8 model=auto
> 
> It worked for me. The probe_mask param allows the correct discovery of  
> the sound codec, which otherwise is masked by the modem.
> if it does the job for you, make it permanent by adding "options  
> snd-hda-intel probe_mask=8 model=auto" at the end of  
> /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
> Let me know if it works for you.
> 
> For reference:
> Code:
> 
> lspci -nnv -s 00:14.2
> 00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio  
> [1002:437b] (rev 01)
>          Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device [1179:ff10]
>          Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
>          Memory at d0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>          Capabilities: <access denied>
> 
> geez man....you're a genius ....got it working in no time....now I can  
> listen to my Sasha and Digweed as much as I want ) Thanks....owe u one
> 
> =======================
 
Thank you I will try it and see. The point is my audio was working in
7.04. It stopped when I changed the kernel from 2.6.20 to 2.6 17.

Norman