Sound on HP g62 laptop.

[mister.dee]

Is there a fix for sound that won't work on Linux, Everything works fine on Win7 but when I go to PClinuxOS i get no sound.  For some time I could hear as long as I had my earphones plugged in but now even that is gone.  Anyone dealt with that problem or something like it?

I am not much of a terminal person so I need clear instructions if you have managed to solve this type of problem.

Thanks
Mr D

[bicol_willem]

Did you check the sound mixer? Make sure channels like "speaker" and "PCM" are way up.

[mister.dee]

yes, my son who is a programmer tried all kinds of things and the best that he could get was sound from the earphones.  None from the speakers.  Now even that seems to be gone. 

[menotu]

Lets try alsaconf for you mister.dee

Open a terminal/konsole.

Type su and press enter

Now type your root password - note the characters won't show on screen - and press enter

Now type alsaconf and press enter and then press OK when the option appears.

It should now go through the procedure of checking/building your sound cards list.

If you get a few cards being shown, try one. If you don't get sound try another one and so on.

Note - make sure you don't have any sound/media related apps running when you run alsaconf

Another thing you could try is installing QASmixer - which is an alternative to KMix - and seeing if it offers anything KMix doesn't (I think it's a nice app to have installed anyway)

Are you fully updated ( rebooting or restarting can often help things along)