Getting sound to work again

Posted on September 15th, 2006 by Sacha Chua
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Things to remember when setting up sound in Ubuntu Linux on a Sony Vaio U1:

modprobe trident
modprobe snd_trident
Be very very thorough with alsamixer settings. For some brain-dead reason, all the important stuff is muted.

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