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☐ Find the headphone jack; it is usually colored green or marked with a headphone symbol.
☐ Find a pair of headphones or speakers from the shelf.
☐ Run basiccheck -m
or use an audio CD to test the jack output; mark your findings on the Keeper label.
- Troubleshooting Audio
In laptops, we cannot physically replace the sound card, like we can in a desktop system. This limits our options when things go wrong. However, we can:
- ensure that the sound card is recognized by the system by running
lspci grep| -i audio
. - double check that audio is not muted in the GUI (look for the audio symbol in the top panel of the Desktop).
- run
alsamixer
in a terminal and check that volume levels for "Master" and "PCM" are set around 90. - check the sound hardware settings that Ubuntu is using. To do this in 10.04, navigate to:
System >> Preferences >> Sound, and click the Hardware tab. Click on the dropdown box by Profile.
Select each hardware option in the menu one by one, and repeat the basiccheck
test for each.
- Requirements
At best, all audio outputs should work.
☐ Note if speakers do not work, or are not present.
☐ Note if the headphone jack does not work.
☐ If both the internal speakers and the headphone jack are not working, check with your instructor.