[Tfug] No sound, Ubuntu 8.10

[arizray at comcast.net]

Before trying your workaround I did set the oss choice in system>preferences-sound but it is not the same as oss4 no doubt and did not work.
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Jim March" <1.jim.march at gmail.com>
> 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
> 
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