New UPDATE: Built-in sound *not* working well (was UPDATE: Built-in sound now working fine)

[Ty Unes]

Damn Thunderbird... Checking this time.

Billy Crook wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 14:28, Ty Unes <riverty at kc.rr.com> wrote:
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>> Have you checked the input/output levels using your mixer of choice? Could
>> be pre-amp overload causing the static sound. Just a thought.
>>
>> Leo Mauler wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, I spoke too soon on this one.  While the microphone plays through to
>> the speakers just fine, when audio or video files are played there is
>> nothing but static, though it is bursts of static indicating something is
>> trying to render the digital media into analog sound.  The microphone also
>> stays on all the time and has to be manually switched off.
>>
>> We've tried different players (the built-in media player, VLC, the music
>> player) and different sound formats (wav, mp3, ogg, avi (XviD/MP3 and
>> XviD/Ogg), mpeg1, etc.) and none of them produce anything other than bursts
>> of static.
>>
>> --- On Sun, 8/3/08, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> 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.
>>
>>
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