Last summer, after installing ubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn) on my laptop. I can’t get the audio running. Prolly thedevice driver was not detected or so. I don’t know exactly what happened. But i did a little research though. I saw this on a post in ubuntu forums but i deleted unnecessary instructions. 🙂
HDA Intel Sound:
#1 First, download the necessary librariesÂ
sudo apt-get install build-essential ncurses-dev gettext
#2 Install the kernel headers
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -`
#3 Download these drivers from the ALSA Project (driver, library, and utils) to a directory (eg. ~/downloads).
In the following we assume that the latest version is 1.0.14rc4. Please change his in accordance with the one you downloaded from the Alsa projectsite.
#4 Set-up installation directories
sudo mkdir -p /usr/src/alsa
cd /usr/src/alsa
sudo cp ~/downloads/alsa* .
sudo tar xjf alsa-driver-1.0.14rc4.tar.bz2
sudo tar xjf alsa-lib-1.0.14rc4.tar.bz2
sudo tar xjf alsa-utils-1.0.14rc4.tar.bz2
#5 Compile and install alsa-driver
cd alsa-driver-1.0.14rc4
sudo ./configure –with-cards=hda-intel
sudo make
sudo make install
#6 Compile and install alsa-libÂ
cd ../alsa-lib-1.0.14rc4
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
#7 Compile and install alsa-utilsÂ
cd ../alsa-utils-1.0.14rc4
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
Note that you must have the curses library installed to be able to compile alsa-utils. You can install it with this command from a terminal:
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
#8 Reboot
It worked for me, why don’t you try it with yours. 🙂