Headphones won't work on 9.04 ubuntu

I have an Asus g50vt a1 laptop. I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 yesterday. I can play sounds out of the speakers on the laptop but when I plug a headset in it mutes the sound and I can't hear anything from the headphones. The headphones work fine in vista. I have researched this problem but haven't found a solution. Does anybody know what the problem is?

 

I am assuming you are using gnome. If so, go to your system tray up top at the right. Double click the little speaker icon. This should bring up a volume control window with 2 tabs. One tab should be called "Playback" and the other should be called "Switches". Click on the switches tab and click on the check box for headphone.

 

This is a common problem with the G50, you need to add an option to a config file. Hit Alt+F2 and type:

Code:

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

Paste in this line to the bottom of the file and hit Save:

Code:

options snd-hda-intel model=m51va

Then hit Alt+F2 again and type:

Code:

gksudo /usr/sbin/alsa force-reload

..and the headphone sense should work.

There is a more detailed explanation here: http://www.linlap.com/wiki/asus+g50v#sound

 

WOW, Thank you vey much. It worked

However Now onto my next problem that isn't as important
My Flash on youtube and other websites SUCKS, on youtube i can barely get through a whole video without it messing up and on other sites that support flash I get very messed up images and videos. Its terrible, its not related to the fix for the previous problem however

here is a picture example
notice the player button on the ad, it is on all flash things before they start LAGGY AND ANNOYING


and im not sure about this but when im on ubuntu THIS SITE IS EXTREMELY SLOW, on windows its fine but on ubuntu....

 

You're using a free and open source alternative to flash, you need to enable Medibuntu repo's and install flash plugin non-free. If you're okay with it that is. Flash alternatives are crap but flash 32bit is provided by Adobe and will work just as fine as on windows.

 

Well i have 64bit and adobe hasn't made a flash plugin for 64bit

I know the steps to fix it but im not good at ubuntu so i dont know what to do

can somebody explain these steps to me stepbystep pls?

 

how do i uninstall the alternative?

ok i installed the new flash adobe 10 alpha for 64bit but the videos are still messed up becuase i have the alternative flash thing installed somewhere

pls help me remove it

 

open up synaptic and it should be listed somewhere in there

 

ugghhghghg i cant find it

does any1 know the default video player of 9.04 ubuntu? is it gstreamer?

 

You should be able to install the official flash player with:

Code:

sudo aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree

The default flash player for Ubuntu is Totem, you should be able to remove it with:

Code:

sudo aptitude purge totem-mozilla

 

well i tried the above directions and it helped me remove the defaukt flash but im still having this problem. Im not sure if it is just how 64bit flash is right now or what but here are a few pictures

When I hit the HD or HQ on a youtube video, it freezes the video or plays it in REAALLy bad quality, Changing the sound from the youtube video doesn't do anything, the sound is always on the highest, when i hit a different part of the youube video it freezes, notice how the sound changer on the video is a glitchy red color




here are the addons I have now, if this helps



Im not sure if these are problems that everyone with 64bit is having or not becuase adobe has the 64bit flash in the alpha phase

 

32/64-bit Users: Alternatively, 32-bit users can download the Tar archive from the same link provided above and follow my instructions below. If you're a 64-bit Ubuntu user, download the Tar archive of the 64-bit Flash Player plug-in from the bottom of this page to your desktop.

Once downloaded, simply open the Tar archive, look for a file named "libflashplayer.so", copy that file to your desktop, then both 32-bit and 64-bit users execute the following command in the terminal:

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree && sudo cp -f ~/Desktop/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ && sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /etc/alternatives/firefox-flashplugin && sudo ln -sf /etc/alternatives/firefox-flashplugin /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/flashplayer-alternative.so

You may now restart your web browser and use the plugin. You still have the Flash 9 plugin installed and are using it, that's why it won't work for you. You need to uninstall the flash 9 plugin and nsplugin-wrapper for everything to work.

 

ok how do i uninstall these?

 

Woops, my mistake. Forgot to give you the commands.

sudo apt-get purge adobe-flashplugin flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common libflashsupport mozilla-plugin-gnash nspluginwrapper swfdec-mozilla

 

i get this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package adobe-flashplugin

btw thank you for your help, i appreciate it

 

Just remove that command then.

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common libflashsupport mozilla-plugin-gnash nspluginwrapper swfdec-mozilla

 

OMG

THANK YOU

FINALLLY FLAsH WORKS

I think I already installed the alpha version of adobe but i had the old one installed to

so afteri typed your command to remove the old one
it stopped messing up the alpha version

rep+

 

I haven't done anything to help anyone here in the longest time, I'm just doing my part. =P Back in the day I used to help dozens a day.

 

how do i unmount this DATA drive?

 

Wow! Nice Devilish desktop wallpaper...
Ok... it seems that the volume is an external hd connected. The much easier way to unmount it is shutting down the system. As it seems that your system is still in the state of communicating with the hd. This may sometime happens to Windows O.S.

 

EDIT: yea that didn't work...............

 

You're gonna have to force it off, haven't done this in a good while so I forget the command but just load up nautilus in root and go to media/data and right click and un-mount.

Code:

gksu nautilus

 

yep it worked thanks again

 

I also suggest you change the lazy wallpaper. It's just an animal pic with a photoshop plugin used. You should check dA for some real art to use. My bad if it's your pic you made. =P