for UNR 9.04 RC, sound doesn't work out-of-box on HP 1030nr netbook

Bug #363592 reported by jasonq
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Bug Description

I installed the UNR 9.04 RC on an HP 1030nr netbook. The good news is nearly everything works great and I was really impressed with UNR both functionally and aesthetically. The bad news is that for the HP 1030nr netbook, the sound did not work out of the box. Basically to fix the problem I had to compile and use the latest version of ALSA.

To get the sound working, I used the information available on several bug threads for the HP netbooks.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=997590
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=996724
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+question/57848

However no individual solution worked, and after trying them all several times and I had given up. I discovered however upon the (strangely, not the first, but the second) reboot after giving up that the sound was in fact now working. So *some* combination of recompiling the latest ALSA drivers (although the utils never completely 100% successfully) and fiddling with the volume controls as discussed in those threads managed to solve the problem.

Needless to say, having sound trouble made the release feel very "1999" for linux. I'm quite experienced with computers and compiling my own software, so if I had trouble then most people would not be able to fix it.

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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it without more information. Would you please add the information requested from the "Reporting Sound Bugs" section of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.

affects: ubuntu → linux (Ubuntu)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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jasonq (jason-quinn) wrote :

UPDATE: We solved this bug completely in another thread (which could have been marked a duplicate instead of getting set as incomplete). See Mauricio Marambio's comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/netbook-remix/+bug/318942/comments/63 in Bug #318942 https://bugs.launchpad.net/netbook-remix/+bug/318942 for a complete step by step fix. Since his post, a 1.0.20 point release of ALSA has occurred so use alsa-driver-1.0.20.tar.bz2 instead of alsa-driver-1.0.19.tar.bz2 and so forth.

A general review of UNR for HP1030NR users: everything works really great. The webcam is a little dark and requires bright light. The netbook came with Windows XP which I found to run pretty slow. UNR runs better but there is still lag sometimes when opening apps or even right click menus. However overall I think it is a decent machine for the money. I returned my first one because it had a screen defect. My second one's left mouse button could have used a stiffer clicking mechanism but oh well.

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