<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Pastor JW wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:201001051948.38450.pastor_jw@the-inner-circle.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tuesday 05 January 2010 5:36:07 pm Ron Burns wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I recently upgraded my Dell studio xps laptop (which shipped with 9.04) to 9.10. I now have no sound. No soundcard is detected: [ 2 ] <wee> (ron) aplay -l aplay: device_list:223: no soundcards found... Dell is no help as they do not support 9.10. Is there any work around for this or do the drivers need to be compiled into the kernel? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Dell used to have nice helpful pages, easy to use, find, and fix your problems with their machines like this one for example <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_7.10#Known_Issues">http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_7.10#Known_Issues</a> but they moved their pages and ruined the layout so they now look like this on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.community.dell.com/wikis/linux/ubuntu-9-10.aspx">http://en.community.dell.com/wikis/linux/ubuntu-9-10.aspx</a> and now it is harder to find what you are looking for. For yours, do you have the ability to perhaps boot into the prior kernel? The latest kernel was supposed to fix XPS sound problems also but if you are not fully updated you may not have the latest one installed. </pre> </blockquote> Thank for your reply. I do not have the ability to boot into a prior kernel. They show up on the boot up menu but the kernel images are missing. Going from 9.04 to 9.10 I just did the upgrade and accepted any defaults along the way. I think I am fully upgraded as I just did this a few days ago and just now checked for additional updates and there were no kernel related updates. Here is what I am running: [ 3 ] <wee> (ron) uname -a Linux wee 2.6.28-16-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 20 19:48:24 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Do I just keep checking for updates and it will ultimately get fixed, or should I be doing something more pro active? (This is my first ubuntu machine - I have been running Red Hat for the last 10 yrs and switched to ubuntu thinking I would have less laptop problems since Dell was "supporting" it.) Regards, Ron <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- R. R. Burns Physicist (Retired) Oceanside, CA </pre> </body> </html>