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Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 is coming by default with the version 1.0.20 of Alsa so I decided to upgrade to the last version wich is 1.0.22.1.

What is Alsa (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) ?

According to Wikipedia, Alsa is a Linux kernel component intended to replace the original Open Sound System (OSS) for providing device drivers for sound cards. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware, and graceful handling of multiple sound devices in a system, goals which it has largely met.

Installation :

To do this, we must begin by determining our version of alsa as follows :

Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 is coming by default with the version 1.0.20 of Alsa so I decided to upgrade to the last version wich is 1.0.21.

What is Alsa (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) ?

According to Wikipedia, Alsa is a Linux kernel component intended to replace the original Open Sound System (OSS) for providing device drivers for sound cards. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware, and graceful handling of multiple sound devices in a system, goals which it has largely met.

Installation :

To do this, we must begin by determining our version of alsa as follows :

Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 is coming by default with the version 1.0.18rc3 of Alsa so I decided to upgrade to the last version wich is 1.0.21.

What is Alsa (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) ?

According to Wikipedia, Alsa is a Linux kernel component intended to replace the original Open Sound System (OSS) for providing device drivers for sound cards. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware, and graceful handling of multiple sound devices in a system, goals which it has largely met.

Installation :

To do this, we must begin by determining our version of alsa as follows :

Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 is coming by default with the version 1.0.18rc3 of Alsa so I decided to upgrade to the last verison wich is 1.0.20.

What is Alsa (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) ?

According to Wikipedia, Alsa is a Linux kernel component intended to replace the original Open Sound System (OSS) for providing device drivers for sound cards. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware, and graceful handling of multiple sound devices in a system, goals which it has largely met.

Installation :

To do this, we must begin by determining our version of alsa as follows :

Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 is coming by default with the version 1.0.18rc3 of Alsa so I decided to upgrade to the last verison wich is 1.0.19. For the 1.0.20 version, go here!

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What is Alsa (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) ?

According to Wikipedia, Alsa is a Linux kernel component intended to replace the original Open Sound System (OSS) for providing device drivers for sound cards. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware, and graceful handling of multiple sound devices in a system, goals which it has largely met.

Installation :

To do this, we must begin by determining our version of alsa as follows :

Once your sound is working with the method I described this morning, we must now correct the problem with the bass that isn’t working.
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First, we must download hda-verb:

Here’s one of the first problems I had during the installation of Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 distribution on my acer aspire 6920 laptop. This laptop has a HDA Intel ACL889 sound card.

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The problem was that I had no sound. Here’s how to solve the problem :

We must add “options snd-hda-intel model=auto” without quotes at the end of this file “/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base”. You can use gedit, kate or your favorite text editor like this :

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

or

kdesudo kate /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
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Then, just restart your computer and your sound should work!

To continue with the installation of the bass, just follow the method in this article!

Ubuntu 8.10 is coming by default with Amarok 1.4.1 in the repository. I decided to install version 2. To do this, we need to install it from “deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu intrepid main” repository. This small tutorial will show you how to do it using graphical tools and using commands lines.

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What is amarok?

According to wikipedia,Amarok is a free software music player for Linux or other varieties of Unix. It makes use of core components from the K Desktop Environment, but is released independently of the central KDE release cycle.

Here is a short video of the version 2 on youtube

Installation with graphical tools

We need to begin by adding the repository. To do this, we have to go in “Software Sources” which is located in “System/Administration”.

Ubuntu is coming by default with OpenOffice 2.4, so, I decided to upgrade to version 3. To do this, there are two methods, either install it from “http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main deb” repository or manually from files directly downloaded on the OpenOffice web site. I started by trying the installation from the repository because it’s much simpler.

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Here is how:

Once your sound is working with the method I described a few days ago , we must now correct the problem with the bass that isn’t working.
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First, we must download hda-verb: