[Gloucs] No sound on Laptop

[Steve Greig]

Thanks to a number of people for comments and links to web sites. With
regard to Lyndon's email: The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 1110 and it
is running Fedora Core 3. I can hear sound. For example CDs play OK and
so does radio over the internet. The problem was not being able to
record with 'Sound Recorder'. Although I am keen to sort this issue out
it is not vital. It is difficult to find information on solving problems
with Linux pitched at the right level for me. Best wishes from Steve.

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 07:57 -0700, Lyndon Evans wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> You don't say what laptop and version of Linux, if you could provide 
> a bit more info...
> I had a problem of no sound on my DELL Inspiron 1100, which has
> an Intel i810 something or other chipset, and after
> quite some time of searching the net, playing around with mixers,
> and debugging the source code, found that all I needed to do was
> enable the "external amplifier" option 
> Obvious really ;oO.
> Regards,
> Lyndon
> 
> Steve Greig <steve at stevespages.org.uk> wrote: Hi, I enjoyed the LUG on Friday. Thanks for putting it on. Unfortunately
> I live too far away to come to them regularly.
> 
> I have just been doing google searches to find help with sorting out
> problems with my Linux lap top and have not managed to find a site which
> seems to be pitched at the right level.
> 
> This particular problem is that I can't record sound: I open up 'sound
> recorder' plug in the microphone and start recording but when I play
> back I don't hear anything.  I have tried raising and unmuting all the
> volume controls (hoping that this won't be wrecking any other
> applications that may use them for example Skype).
> 
> Over the year or so that I have been running Linux I have struggled to
> solve problems like this and still have not found a really good source
> of tutorials aimed at the sort of level I am at.
> 
> As well as solving the specific problem I would be really interested if
> you had any suggestions for good sites for explaining Linux issues to
> people who have a very limited ability to use the command line like me
> and are a bit out of their depth but want to continue to use Linux.
> 
> There are many things I don't do like connect directly to other people's
> computers; use video; record sound; print from the gimp; OCR scan etc
> etc simply because initial attempts to sort them out have failed (many
> things have worked!)
> 
> I am really reluctant to go back to Windows or Mac but I really need to
> be pointed to some good information for my level of use if I am going to
> be able stick with Linux.
> 
> Sorry for the length of this. Any ideas would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Best wishes from Steve 
> 
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