02-18-2011
There's no "dell driver" for all dell past, present, and future, we need to know what your laptop is. Laptops have especially strange arrangements of hardware because of how cramped they are; often needing model-specific fixes and their own special drivers, not the generic ones. This is often true even in Windows.
Ubuntu has a lot of tuning to accommodate known hardware, but it doesn't know everything; Dell doesn't ship with Linux fixes the way it ships with Windows ones, they have to do it the hard way, themselves. You've lucked out with HP before but that was just luck: my HP's sound didn't work out of the box... In short: You can't expect Ubuntu to be spot-on perfect on hardware they haven't had a chance to test on.
If you can access IRC you could login to freenode and ask on the #alsa channel, I've found them especially helpful for linux sound problems. They knew settings right-off that'd take me weeks to stumble on with google.
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install_sound
install_sound(3alleg4) Allegro manual install_sound(3alleg4)
NAME
install_sound - Initialises the sound module. Allegro game programming library.
SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h>
int install_sound(int digi, int midi, const char *cfg_path);
DESCRIPTION
Initialises the sound module. You should normally pass DIGI_AUTODETECT and MIDI_AUTODETECT as the driver parameters to this function, in
which case Allegro will read hardware settings from the current configuration file. This allows the user to select different values with
the setup utility: see the config section for details. Alternatively, see the platform specific documentation for a list of the available
drivers. The cfg_path parameter is only present for compatibility with previous versions of Allegro, and has no effect on anything.
RETURN VALUE
Returns zero if the sound is successfully installed, and -1 on failure. If it fails it will store a description of the problem in alle-
gro_error.
SEE ALSO
remove_sound(3alleg4), reserve_voices(3alleg4), detect_digi_driver(3alleg4), detect_midi_driver(3alleg4), set_volume(3alleg4), play_sam-
ple(3alleg4), play_midi(3alleg4), play_audio_stream(3alleg4), install_sound_input(3alleg4), allegro_error(3alleg4), set_mixer_qual-
ity(3alleg4), exmidi(3alleg4), exsample(3alleg4), exsprite(3alleg4), exstream(3alleg4)
Allegro version 4.4.2 install_sound(3alleg4)