Ubuntu 20.04: No sound

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 16:22, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The EXE for my Dell desktop was a Windows .EXE file. I did try FreeDos on my hard drive and got nowhere with it.
>
> How did you create the FreeDOS USB stick? Very keen to know :)

Actually I just did it, albeit with a pre-existing FreeDOS bootable
key I've used before. It's an old 1GB stick so it's not much use for
anything else. It has a whole list of firmware updaters on it now.

https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Creating_a_Bootable_DOS_USB_Stick

My Dell Latitude E7270 crashed this afternoon. Very unusual these
days. I did some checks and the UEFI firmware was 15 versions behind
(!). So, I downloaded the EXE file from dell.com, dragged and dropped
it onto my USB key -- after checking it was not something I could
extract -- rebooted off the key and ran it. It failed 1st time because
FreeDOS installs a memory manager. I rebooted, used F5 to bypass
CONFIG/SYS & AUTOEXEC.BAT, ran it again, and now I am on the latest
firmware and my PC is running again.

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