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On 10/05/11 19:44, David Bell wrote: > > Yes! Brand new laptop with an Intel (ALC272) chip. Reading around it looks like it works for some, is it a Samsung by any chance? > What a mess - back to 1994 trying to get sound cards to work:( It is worse when it happens to hardware you own and you know no kernel developers are likely to care about that hardware ever again since then I'm tempted to hack kernel code and that is a bad idea. More details would be useful (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure seems useful but suggests installing and running scripts rather randomly. If it were me my first guess would be "they broke it in the kernel" thus Q1) is there a newer kernel I can try? Q2) Is there an older kernel I can try? Only after exhausting that would I bother troubleshooting beyond looking at the output of various commands and making sure nothing obvious is wrong. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/kernel/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq