[Tfug] sound on linux

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

On Thu, August 27, 2009 1:46 pm, christopher floess wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm on archlinux, and I've recently zapped my rc.conf and
> I've since had no sound.
>
> Does anyone know the best way to troubleshoot this? I've gone through
> the archwiki for alsa http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALSA, but
> that still has left me without sound.
>
> For the life of me, I can't figure out where I went wrong when I
> configured it.
>
> For what it's worth, I have a thinkpad t61, and I've taken all of the
> thinkpad specific instructions into account. Maybe I missed something.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help ~ Chris

In the old days ... if I had problems configuring Debian or Ubuntu 5.10, I
would pop in a Knoppix disk.  Knoppix just worked and I could copy the
configuration file.  It might give you some hints anyway.

Earl