On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 21:16 -0700, William Santiago wrote: > Carl, Thanks for pointing out my newbie mistake about burning ISO files to > CD, when I followed your instructions, it worked like a charm. > > > Latest Situation: > > Installed Ubuntu 6.06 (over older version) via internet connection tonight. > As OS was installing, error messages pertaining to volume control crossed my > screen more than once. No surprise, when I rebooted system, I have no sound > but I might add, I had no sound when I installed prior version of Ubuntu > either. Please, someone, point me in right direction taking into account I > am very GREEN... > > All help greatly appreciated... > Bill > > Hi Bill,
I'm also still relatively green, and most of what I know I learned at recent installfests from the experienced guys (Carl is one of them ...). Anyway, the first thing you'll need to find out is what sound hardware your Linux distribution thinks you have (and whether it makes the right assumptions). If you are running the GNOME desktop, you'll get an indication if you run gnome-sound-properties from a terminal (you can also get it from System->Preferences->Sound) and look at what the alternatives to "Autodetect" in the various menus are. These should be the audio hardware devices that Linux thinks you have. That's about as much as I can help at the moment ... ... the experts can probably recover the error messages you got from someplace in /var/log and draw valuable conclusions what, exactly, the nature of the volume control errors were, and in which direction to look to fix them. Christoph (wonders which log file would be a good place to look for the messages) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
