Alsa Sound in 10.04

[zongo saiba]

On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 12:54 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 05/01/2010 04:26 PM, zongo saiba wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 15:02 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> ...
> >> I had this issue rebuilding an 8.04 for a friend. This helped:
> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting
> >> Turned out that the sound modules weren't getting loaded, so I used the
> >> suggested: "Do you have the sound modules installed?"
> >> 
> >>  
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > Thanks for your response.
> > I really dont get why Ubuntu is not shipping with the newest Alsa
> > version which is now 1.0,23. Most of all, 10.0.4 installs with 1.0.21.
> > The result is that my sound is broke and I need to run an update to the
> > latest version of Alsa and see if i can get my sound card to play
> > nicely:) I think the internal speakers are not going to be an issue but
> > more the jack. Sound in linux is just way too hard.... 
> > 
> 
> You might want to try the dev ppa:
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev/+archive/ppa
> 
> 
> 
> 


What is really annoying is not being able to plug in a jack and have
sound through your external speakers. It makes me think that the issue
is not coming from Alsa but more from Ubuntu 10.04. I had sound through
my external speaker with Ubuntu 9.10 and never actually froze. Now, I
did intermittently freeze with Alsa 1.0.23 and do not get sound with my
external speakers under Ubuntu 10.0.4. I downgraded to Alsa 1.0.22 and
now the freeze is gone but the internal Jack is broke. I really think
Ubuntu 10.0.4 is not agreeing with Alsa or simply handling things
differently with  my sound card.