Comments on: Fix Ubuntu Audio Problem in Sony Vaio

By: Rohit

Rohit — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:24:17 +0000

sound is not working in sony vpceb36fg in ubuntu10.04

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:29:03 +0000

People,

I used to have the same problem with the audio and I could fix it.

Details:

Laptop model: Sony VAIO VPCEE43EL (but it should work with all the VAIO series).
Ubuntu version: Ubuntu 10.10 & Ubuntu 11.04 (I tried with both).

How to fix it:

(1) Go to the speaker icon and select Sound Preferences.
(2) Make sure there’s no program using the sound under Application tab.
(3) Go to Hardware Tab and select Analog Stereo Output from the drop dawn list.
(4) Go to Output Tab and under Connector select Analog Speakers.
(5) Now, go to Hardware Tap again and select Test Speakers. It should work.

Extra recommendations:

(A) Probably it’s going to be a good idea to restart the computer.
(B) I recommend to test sound with headphones to make sure that we’re not talking about a different problem.

Good luck!

Joel

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:02:03 +0000

The package you want to install is linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic (not ‘lucid’ instead of the the kernel version). Otherwise you will have to manually update the backports package whenever a new kernel package is released (which is pretty often these days).

By: DEN @ Dreamhost Coupon

DEN @ Dreamhost Coupon — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:03:07 +0000

Linux looks good and works good too but these small problems always seems to rise up