[Tfug] No sound, Ubuntu 8.10

[Jim March]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:26 PM,  <arizray at comcast.net> wrote:
> A common error occurs after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 whereby the sound does not work. I have perused several forums and tried several fixes to no avail. I went into system>preferences>sound and tried to test and reset parameters but that doesn't work.
>
> Anyone know a workaround?

Well yeah, I know one...pretty radical, but it works.

Pull out ALSA and PulseAudio and splice in OSS4.

In my case, I have a laptop with Intel HDA sound that during
Intrepid's beta had problems whereby the sound would fade and
disappear when I plugged headphones in.  Pulling the headphones out
didn't restore sound to the lappy's internal speakers.  I installed
OSS4 and it worked great, then once Intrepid hit release did a clean
install and sound was fine...until a couple of weeks ago when an
update broke sound yet again, in the same fashion.

I dunno, this is actually the first time I've seen an Ubuntu update
post-release break something.

Anyways, it's back to OSS4 for me...and it works quite well.

You can see my notes in dealing with this here:

http://test.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=913328

I jump in at the bottom of page two, post details in page 3 of the
OSS4 solution and then there's much discussion regarding implications
of this hack.  I recommend reading the whole thread before going
there.

There's also discussion of a "fine tuning" method for ALSA that didn't
work for me but might work for you...certainly a less radical hack
than an OSS4 splice job.

Jim