Comment 12 for bug 107232

OK kernel-janitor,

Thanks for keeping up with this bug.

I can confirm it's still a problem. We just installed Jaunty on two new Malibal notebooks.

We can't get the sound volume up at all. It's so low that a pin dropping will drown it out.

We've tried all the recommended solutions to no avail.

Nothing seems to work and it's embarrassing for business applications when you can't even show your software products to customers because no one can hear anything.

We'll have to drop Ubuntu if this isn't corrected. There's no excuse for this. Ubuntu has a long history of sound issues and it's obvious that nothing is being done about it.

We're looking at a launchpad page at this moment and I see over a thousand pages regarding sound/volume issues.

What is up with Ubuntu's sound/volume? It's been years and it's a big problem with every release.

We have this problem on different makes and models. We've had this same issue over and over with various versions; from Feisty to Jaunty.

You guys have got to get this right. It will kill you in the long run. Unfortunately, I believe the long run is already here.

I'm going to run your command for "auto gather and attached updating"

I sincerely hope this helps you decipher how we can all overcome this debacle.

We are trying very hard to get other companies in the oil and gas industry interested in Ubuntu. One of the biggest complaints we hear about is that Ubuntu is unreliable regarding sound/volume; excluding printers and projectors.

Business can tolerate a lot compared to Microsoft, however, having no sound is the bullet that will deliver the kill shot for the Ubuntu OS. People just will not use a system that offers a "Cheese-Weenie" sound config. What's worse is this issue is very old and it's not being address at all by Canonical.

We have all of our machines dual booted with XP on half and Ubuntu on the other half. Sound works fine on all machines when booted into XP, nevertheless, Ubuntu has virtually no sound volume on any of our machines. That goes for desktops, workstations, and field engineer notebooks.

So.....this is not just an isolated case of some quirky brand or model. Its a very real issue for most brands and models.