(Warty) no sound devices created on Dell D-800 laptop.

[Bruce S. Skinner]

Hello Vesperan,

Thanks to a post from Oli Grawert, I have it running by temporarily
disabling the parallel port in the BIOS.  When next I boot, I'll try
the acpi_irq_isa=7 solution.

regards :-)
BruceS

Vesperan <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> writes:

> Hi Bruce,
> I have a 600m Laptop and encountered the same no-sound problem. I
> followed the advice in this thread for the 'D800 Laptop'
> (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=5464) and put in
> acpi_irq_isa=7 into my grub config file, and it worked. 
> 
> Another way to get around the problem was to recompile the kernel with
> file system support built in (as opposed to modules), and stop using a
> ramdisk to boot up with. The first solution was much easier however.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Vesperan
> 

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