Comments on: Ubuntu 9.04 problems: Jaunty fixes for HP DV6 1120es

By: Taher Shihadeh

Taher Shihadeh — Wed, 05 May 2010 11:45:53 +0000

Well … if the backported modules broke it, I would try removing them and see how it goes. Btw, the same laptop works fine with 9.10 and 10.04 AFAICT.

By: mik

mik — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:19:33 +0000

Well thanks sort of, It got the sound working, but now I have lost the wireless, which was working pretty good before.

By: Andre Soares

Andre Soares — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:08:24 +0000

Just to let you know that, at least for my HP DV6-1250, Karmic didn’t recognize my sound card “out of the box”, and I had to install linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic-generic to fix it.

By: Taher Shihadeh

Taher Shihadeh — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:28:31 +0000

I’m glad its working again :)
The only difference I can see is the “enable_msi=1″ parameter that my post is lacking. The rest looks like pretty much the same. As I said on the post, this was a friend’s computer, so I’m sorry but I have no idea what that parameter would do.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:18:16 +0000

i guess an edit/update to what i posted above, do not ask me why it would not extract it/ why i did not think to extract it myself, but i did, and everything worked from there continued. but i ask what is the difference b/w this fix, and the one described here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1258788&page=2 post #14? it seems like yours is a quicker way of doing the same thing, but i really do not know.

By: Taher Shihadeh

Taher Shihadeh — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:12:58 +0000

You could try http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.bz2 instead. As of today, last unstable seems to be 11 days old, while this one was packed yesterday.
Or the .gz file instead of the bz2. In that case, change ‘tar xvj’ for ‘tar xvz’.
Hopefully with Karmic (due in four days) these problems will disappear, so I wish you luck.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:04:54 +0000

this worked for me the other day, but after an update, no sound, and now this does not work. after wget http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-unstable-snapshot.tar.bz2 -0 -| tar xvj
the terminal says, “bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows.
bzip2: Invalid argument
Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)

It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.

You can use the `bzip2recover’ program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.”
it downloads the bzip2 file, but then nothing happens, and i have no clue where to go from there

By: Hamid

Hamid — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:15:05 +0000

Thanks Taher! It worked!!! But it is so slow still!!

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:49:30 +0000

thank you so much man. this shit worked. bad ass my man!

By: Taher Shihadeh

Taher Shihadeh — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:29:10 +0000

I’ve never used archlinux.
However, basically you need to update your kernel and alsa version. You might find them in AUR, I wouldn’t know. Even if you don’t, you can still fix Alsa. Remove the “apt-get install” part, install the minimal tools to build a package (libc6-dev, make, gcc or g++) by hand, and the rest of the snippet should still help you.