Quick and dirty, worth a try. Try this. Actually I have to do it every time I boot lately because i haven't gone into really fixing the underlying whatever. alsaconf just keep hitting enter and try again. if it works, then, well,, Jonathon Jongsma wrote: >a few days ago, sound stopped working on my laptop. I'm starting to >suspect that it's a hardware problem, but since I'm not an expert when >it comes to hardware, I'm not sure how to go about proving whether >it's a software or hardware issue. Can anybody give me any pointers >on where to start looking? If it were a desktop, I'd just try >swapping in a new sound card, but I'm not sure what to do on a laptop. > >The basic symptom is that the music player acts like it's playing >stuff, but no sound comes out, either from the built-in speakers or >the headphone jack. > >Does anybody know of a definitive way to prove whether it's a hardware >or software issue? By the way, I'm running Ubuntu Dapper on a HP >zv6000 series laptop. > >Thanks, >Jonathon > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > >