On 09/08/10 11:29, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 12:00 +0100,Simos Xenitellis > <simos.li...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Rowan Berkeley >> <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, people. Two more gremlins today: sound card vanished, i.e. not >> > just no sound, but 'internal audio' not found in audio hardware; and >> > 'shut down' vanished from main user menu. Did a hard shut down using >> > the power button, restarted, everything back to normal. This is >> > undoubtedly hardware, isn't it - and the machine just one month out >> > of guarantee... >> >> The typical thing for sound is to run the alsa-info.sh utility that >> grabs all the hardward info of your sound card and helps in figuring >> out what went wrong.To do this, run >> wget www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh -O alsa-info.sh&& bash >> alsa-info.sh >> You will be prompted to send the report to www.alsa-project.org; >> answer Yes and write down the URL given. Finally, post the URL here in >> the reply so we can help. In addition to this, you should be somewhat >> wary when people ask you to run command on your computer. The command >> I mention above is referenced in >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting and the website >> I mention is the official Alsa website (http://www.alsa-project.org). >> Normally you do not get anymore a 'Shutdown' menu option under the >> System menu, since the Indicator Applet has the Shutdown >> functionality. Which version of Ubuntu do you use? There is a >> difference in the shutdown button between 10.04 and previous versions. >> Simos > > That's a very helpful reply, Simos, thank you. I thought there was an > outside chance that I did not have a hardware problem, and it would be a > relief if this turned out to be the case. The URL for the alsa report is > http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a625eb47fb7ce3264dd9405755d19a94a416fa20 > I see what you mean about the indicator applet having a shutdown > feature; I had removed this applet on installing 10.04, assuming I would > still have shutdown on the main menu, and for a few days, I did have. > :-) > Rowan
I am a bit surprised that you seem to be having problems with the N500, and a bit uneasy too. I have friends with a couple of these laptops and they are currently running Ubuntu 9.04. I will be expecting to upgrade to 10.04 LTS in the next few months. Is anyone aware of others using 10.04 on this machine ok? -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
