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only one of the two speakers is working (driver issue)

Asked by tamara liscaljet

Hello,

I hope there's a fix for my problem. I have Ubuntu Feisty x64 installed on my Acer Aspire 5102.
After performing an update only one side (right) of the two speakers is working. The same thing happens if i plug in headphones.
Seems my driver is crappy cause i have a dualboot with windows and the two speakers are working fine in this OS.

Does anyone know how to downgrade the driver or what driver i should install to make it work oke? The sounddevice is an Ati SB450 HDA.
I don't know witch driver version is currently installed. How can i find that?

Thanks

Tamara

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tamara liscaljet (n-liscaljet) said : 		#1

btw i found the version of the driver : alsa 1.0.13
kernel version : 2.6.20-16-generic

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tamara liscaljet (n-liscaljet) said : 		#2

i am trying to upgrade the alsa driver to 1.0.14 but i get a fault about C compiler.

root@tammetje-laptop:/usr/src/alsa# cd alsa-driver-1.0.14
root@tammetje-laptop:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.14# sudo ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
root@tammetje-laptop:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.14# sudo make
make all-deps
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.14'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-deps'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.14'

Please, run the configure script as first...

Help!!!!!!!

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Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) said : 		#3

Which upgrade caused the problem?

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tamara liscaljet (n-liscaljet) said : 		#4

i wish i knew. i just installed avalable updates, i didn't payed attention to the updates themselves, so i dont know what was installed. :D
i know i know, bit stupid.

the c-compiler problem comes up with installing other programs in terminal too, i see now. :S
and i can't find the config.log anywhere. At least not in var/logs/

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Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) said : 		#5

Install build-essential:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
If doesn't work, paste here the config.log file.

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tamara liscaljet (n-liscaljet) said : 		#6

THANKS!!!! :D it worked perfectly! i installed the build-essential and after this i followed the howto again : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto

my sound is great again and working on both sides of the speakers!

Thanks again! :D very happy!