On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
Well I guess a litle bit of information goes a long way. I had been thinking that the laptop had some weird very proprietary ESS Audiodrive chipset, ESS0006, which is what popped up in the Ubuntu Device Manager.
Recently I discovered that his laptop actually uses the ESS1869 chipset, which is supported by the snd-es18xx module. Turns out one line ("snd-es18xx") added to /etc/modules made his sound work in Ubuntu Linux. Funny thing was that he didn't know he had a built-in microphone on his laptop until Ubuntu rebooted and the speakers started echoing everything we said...
Turns out that Ubuntu likes to disable some systems' sound by default, though I've never found the criteria they use to determine which systems shouldn't have sound and which get get sound. This link describes the problem and how to fix it, if any of you run into someone having the same problem and can't fix it personally.
Linux - Installing Ubuntu - Enabling your sound card...
http://www.aotk50.dsl.pipex.com/install-ubuntu-sb16/install-ubuntu-sb16.htm
TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2kp9so
Anyway, now that his sound works I think I've hooked another Linux convert. WINE already ran the few bits of Windows software he has to run.
Your report has reopened a question of mine. is there a consistent application of some method for collating data on "odd ducks". To feed back into the config databases.
Oren Beck
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