Comment 197 for bug 318942

@Jean-Marc Saffroy

Thank you for the commands. My original comment was actually @Mauricio (comment #63 in this thread), wherein I followed his installation instructions for patch, gettext, libncurses5-dev, xmlto, and xmltoman packages, along with all the alsa 1.0.19 drivers, lib, utils, etc. That is what solved my sound problem. Now I see that Colin later created and made available a new test kernel which solves this sound problem as well. My questions now are: what have I done so far; which would have been the better solution; and how do I keep from "breaking" it (keep the sound working as it is now, without missing out on important updates)? I'm very new to Linux and Ubuntu, so this is a learning curve for me. I have to say, however, that I am really liking Ubuntu (UNR), and it runs amazingly fast on my netbook, utilising only 3.4GB of my 16GB SSD!

Cheers.