gateway m520

[elric50]

just thought this was cool why can't it be that simple for us noobs?

This frustrated me for a while, until I found a solution on ubuntuforums.org right here.

 

Nothing I would have ever, ever figured out myself:

 

Right click on the volume icon in the top panel. Choose “Open Volume Control.”

 

In the Volume Control, select VIA 8237 if it’s not selected.

 

Select Edit/Preferences in the menu, and on the dialog that pops up, checkmark “External Amplifier.”

 

Now Volume Control should have a third tab, “Switches.” The only setting on that tab is “External Amplifier,” a checkbox. Uncheck the checkbox. Volia! Sound!

 

In a way this is classic Linux insanely-weird-solutions-to-simple-problems. But we are also in a new era. Notice that the fix, arcane and improbable as it is, is entirely gui-based. No configuration files were edited, no command line utilities were run. It was checkboxes and tabs. That’s all.

 

It’s a different world out there with Ubuntu. They’re taking the guification seriously — so seriously that even arcane freaky fixes to stupid hardware problems are guified.

 

That’s pretty cool. it really works tried it with live cd and all my audio probs went away.but go back to mac and .....nothing.so it's an internal software switch but have tried all the kexts and applehda azaila everything with no luck here's my ispci txt file 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller [8086:3580] (rev 02)

00:00.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller [8086:3584] (rev 02)

00:00.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller [8086:3585] (rev 02)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 02)

00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 02)

00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 03)

00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 03)

00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 03)

00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 03)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 83)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24cc] (rev 03)

00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller [8086:24ca] (rev 03)

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5] (rev 03)

00:1f.6 Modem [0703]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller [8086:24c6] (rev 03)

01:05.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller [104c:ac56]

01:06.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T [14e4:4401] (rev 01)

01:09.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03) Pleeeeeaaaassssee Help.