[ubuntu-za] Hardy

[Hannes Coetzee]

For future reference..

Fixing HDA Intel sound can be simple and only takes a few minutes. Read 
through
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto .All the info you 
need is there.

Regards
Hannes

Bill Cairns wrote:
> My problems with Hardy are making me despondent and pessimistic.
>
> I have a common or garden Mecer PC with an Intel 965 motherboard which 
> came with a dual core 2.13 processor and a 82801H  Audio Controller. 
> Hard to get more common or garden than that.
>
> My sound does not work.
>
> I have spent many fruitless hours scanning the forums and launchpad 
> and the Internet in general. I have followed all the advice given me 
> except that I have not re-built the whole ALSA suite from source. 
> There have been some advances - alsamixer now works when it didn't 
> before; I can set my default sound card which I couldn't before. But 
> sound there are none.
>
> I have learned that the problem was first reported on the Alpha 2 
> release and is a confirmed bug.
>
> Did I mention that it worked fine with 7.10 Gutsy?
>
> OK - so perhaps downloading the latest source of the whole alsa suite 
> and re-building is going to solve my problem. On the other hand 
> perhaps it won't. I am very reluctant to go down that route - somehow 
> it seems to confirm every popular prejudice against Linux - that it is 
> for Geeks only. If Ubuntu can't run on my stock standard off-the-shelf 
> Intel PC, how much faith can I have that the next release is even 
> going to support my ethernet card?
>
> Good - that is my frustration vented publically and is now off my chest.
>
> Advice on what to do next? It seems I can -
>
> Revert to Gutsy.
> Keep on mucking around and re-build alsa and recompile my kernel and 
> learn yoga and stand on my head
> Learn to live without sound
> Hope that the bug gets fixed.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Oh - thanks for listening to me. And I still love Ubuntu even if a bit 
> less than before.
>
> Bill
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