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    Built-in Subwoofer

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by mfmbcpman, Dec 8, 2006.

  1. mfmbcpman

    mfmbcpman Notebook Consultant

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    It seems that my subwoofer isn't working in Ubuntu 6.1. It works just fine in Windows. Does anyone else's work? Any solutions?
     
    mfmbcpman, Dec 8, 2006
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  2. Paul

    Paul Mom! Hot Pockets! NBR Reviewer

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    Nope, doesn't work on mine either. It's more than likely a driver problem; I'm sure Windows drivers for the Intel sound card are designed to make use of it whereas the generic Linux drivers aren't.
     
    Paul, Dec 9, 2006
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  3. BigV

    BigV Notebook Deity

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    yeah, I hate to say it, but usually the intel HDA stuff has pretty basic speakers attached to it in a laptop. you might try going through the howto on the ubuntu wiki

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto

    it's focused more at the 6.06 and not the 6.10 release, but the info in the section "Manually tell the driver which flavor you are using" might be of use.
     
    BigV, Dec 9, 2006
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  4. Paul

    Paul Mom! Hot Pockets! NBR Reviewer

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    Okay, well, I got mine to work. All I did was follow that guid that BigV linked to, except at the end where it tells you to add the "options snd-hda-intel model=stack3" thing, I instead typed
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    options snd-hda-intel model=ref
    which, as the guide says, loads the computers defualt. Doing this brought up a new option in the sound mixer called "LFE" which is bascially the subwoofer volume. But to be honest with you, the subwoofer isn't really a subwoofer per se, but rather another speaker, as you will quickly learn. It just has a lot more bass and a lot less treble than the other two. But it works. I'm using 6.06 though, so that may cause a problem, but I doubt it.
     
    Paul, Dec 9, 2006
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  5. BigV

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    cool, I'm glad it worked for ya.
     
    BigV, Dec 9, 2006
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