Hi, Yes, try seeing if the sound is muted when Ubuntu comes up, it's happened on an old HP notebook I had. As for 9.10, it's a nightmare with Orca. I had the most issues with that release and it should be avoided anyways as 10.10 is out.
Alex On 4/7/11, Guy Schlosser <guyster...@att.net> wrote: > Hey there Martin, do not give up yet. Have you asked your wife to look > at the volume levels once you have booted the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) > live CD? I'm thinking that your sound hardware is recognized, however > your sound is muted. I have seen this on occasion when installing > Ubuntu from the live CD. In the cases I've come across, simply unmuting > the sound once is enough to get everything up and running normally. I > hope this is helpful if you get the chance to try again. > > > Guy > > > On 04/07/2011 10:21 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: >> After spending about two weekends and weekday evenings, >> basically all spare time, trying to get ubuntu10.10 then failing >> that, ubuntu9.10 with orca to install on a Dell Dimension system >> running a Pentium4 processor, I am tossing in the towel. The >> ubuntu live CD for 10.10 never once produced any sound although >> it went through the most elaborate mime I have ever seen of the >> booting process. You could hear the CDROM running and the laser >> mechanism could be heard zipping back and forth, obviously >> reading the disk, etc. At the end of about 5 minutes, things >> would quiet down and I hit Tab, then Enter, then Alt-F2 followed >> by orca and then Enter again. More rattling from the laser as if >> something was happening, but more dead silence. >> >> The Vinux3.0 and 3.1 CD's go through the same >> time-wasting tease, making one think that a working system is >> just minutes away, but the end result is the same as trying to >> boot the ubuntu10.10 CD. >> >> The sound chip set is good. Other disks such as the >> older Vinux2.1 bootable CD come right up talking. The ubuntu8.10 >> live CD plays the melody and cricket sounds as it boots up. >> >> The ubuntu9.10 live CD uses a different procedure to >> start orca and one does hear "Welcome to orca." >> >> The running orca desktop is not quite healthy, however. >> It will randomly freeze, maybe 30 seconds; maybe 5 minutes; >> maybe an hour later, but at some point, one can hit a key, hear >> no response and it's all over and darned if this P.C. has no HW >> reset button. There are probably a couple of pins somewhere on >> the mother board, but I will have to get somebody to help find >> them and one shouldn't have to do a hardware reset often anyway. >> >> I installed ubuntu9.10 on the hard drive and got orca to >> talk after login, but after another random freeze, the system >> wants to go in to rescue mode. None of that talks so I may just >> end up giving up on orca for now, installing the old Vinux so as >> to get some use from the system, and waiting to see if ubuntu11 >> has any better discovery mechanisms to get the audio and orca >> running. >> >> During one time when things were running, I installed >> and ran memtester. There are 1.3 GB of RAM and a 2.7GHZ >> processor and it all seems to be working like it should. >> >> I know the hardware discovery mechanism is extremely >> tricky and I think that is where things are breaking down. When >> trying the ubuntu10.10 and Vinux3.x CD's which are based on >> ubuntu10.10, I get the impression that the hardware discovery >> mechanism reaches the wrong conclusion on my system and tries to >> work based on that. >> >> My dear wife has helped me go through the CMOS setup >> several times and we have verified that the CMOS knows the sound >> is on, that the hard drive is second behind the CDROM in boot >> order, the video is set to use the onboard chips and we have a >> 8-meg video buffer. There is really no other way to set it other >> than to choose a 1-meg buffer. >> >> I think we've done everything we can do and ubuntu10.10 >> refuses to play. Ubuntu9.10 plays, but blacks out and can't >> remember where it was, so to speak. >> > > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
