Comment 170 for bug 318942

Thomas B:

Congraulations on getting the sound working. I'll surely be trying the steps you took.

Here's something funny though: I'm pretty sure that the file "alsabase" (without the "conf") didn't exist before you edited it. the gedit command will create the file you ask it to edit if it is not there, hence you found it blank (linux gurus, back me up here). But you got it working, so this suggests to me, amature that I am, that you might have stumbled upon the flaw in the alsa driver. I know that alsa switched between using "alsabase" and "alsabase.conf" when they released one of their update versions. Could it be that some part of the new driver poiints to "alsabase"--a file that doesn't exist?

Just a hypothesis.

Has anyone else found that they accidentaly type the word "alsa" when trying to type the word "also" during normal speach? I have.