Driver problem with Ubuntu 10.10


 
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# 1  
Old 02-18-2011
Driver problem with Ubuntu 10.10

I have a Dell laptop with Ubuntu 10.10 installed in it. The headphone driver is not supportive in my system but it works really well with other laptops like HP.
So my question is that does Ubuntu 10.10 in Dell does not work? Moreover, if i upgrade my system later with 11.04, will the problem still be there or 11.04 might support the headphone driver?
# 2  
Old 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.
# 3  
Old 02-18-2011
So... can I solve this problem by using the terminal? Do we have any command to solve this problem?
# 4  
Old 02-18-2011
I repeat: I need to know what your laptop is.

These problems are model-specific, the fixes also model-specific. There is not a /usr/bin/make_sound_work_better.sh that will magically know what's wrong and fix it.

The fix that worked for my HP laptop(which involved forcing the ALSA drivers to believe it was a toshiba!) will not work for your Dell.
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Old 02-19-2011
To know what's your soundcard : lshw, find the data concerning the sound and then you can try a search with the reference and "ubuntu" as keywords.
# 6  
Old 02-21-2011
...or you could tell us what your laptop is.
# 7  
Old 02-23-2011
Could anyone help me with how to convert rtf file to ttf file in ubuntu terminal?
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