ubuntu 12.04 sound problem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 06:21:34PM +0400, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> I think the same way. However, I copied already tonnes of valuable
> files to my home ;)

If they are valuable, then they are backed up elsewhere already.

> OK. I should be able to do things back in the right way ;)
> 
> >
> >| Still do not quite understand that but I worked around: under /host (where
> >| there was a lot of free space) I created a directory
> >| /host/home and /host/home/my_username and copied all files from
> >| /home/my_username to that direcory, creating instead a symlink from
> >| /home_my_username
> >
> >I am superstitious about this kind of thing.  Why not actually change
> >your home directory to /host/home/my_username, avoiding the symlink?
> 
> Did not help.
> 
> I will go for the first, simplest, classical, standard solution! By
> by Windows! (actually, I wanted windows to have for my wife, but
> since she is computer illeterate she could use Linux as well)

Does /proc/asound show a sound device?

How about alsamixer?

Of course given the age of the OS, maybe the sound device is just too
new to be found.

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