No Sound on my Toshiba Satellite A-205

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Post by Husse »

Good that you try to help each other!
untarred the file that I downloaded from Realtek, and read the "readme" file. Then I doubleclicked on "install".
ohoh - this a part of the Linux downside.
If it was a tarball it was not a .deb file and not directly possible to install in a debian based distro as Mint. You could install it with alien, look here:
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... eb_package
The post with /etc/modules had to do with an old ISA card. There is also a kernel issue here - 2.20-16 gives problems with sound too I think....
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Husse

Post by Husse »

I would say you don't need a modem. Removing the modem has solved many sound issiues, so if you could do that it would probably be helpful.
I think there may be a hatch to open and the you could even physically remove the modem.
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