Comment 44 for bug 538383

I am experimenting with Linux, ubuntu 10.04, for my first time. I have a Lenovo T410s 64-bit machine.

I'm quite excited about trying something different than windows for the first time. Problem is the sound isn't functioning. I saw a couple previous posts that address this issue, but I'm not very good with computers beyond being a normal graduate student user. Could somebody give me a step by step guide, in fourth-grader language, on how to resolve this issue, perhaps developing the suggestions around posts 5 and 6? Or am I in over my head, and should go running back to windows 7?

Thank you in advance!