My laptop (a Toshiba Sattelite Pro L40) has working sound now! It started woking after I added the following two lines to the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base options snd-card-0 index=0 model=3stack options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=3stack The problem was that the audio was working when I first started the laptop, but it would stop when I used the volume mixer. Changing the volume did something that made the audio stop working.
I have installed Ubuntu Linux on my laptop. This is the second time that I tried installing linux on my laptop. The first time there were all kinds of problems with unsupported hardware. When I installed Ubuntu yesterday, everything worked (except for Wireless). After a bit of searching I found a solution in ndiswrapper. I’m not that happy with this, because it is using Windows drivers. I’m waiting for the release of the new madwifi wireless drivers, which I hope will fix this problem....
Yesterday I bought a new laptop. A Toshiba Sattelita Pro L40. When I tried to install linux it looked like it work pretty good. But when I tried to connect using the onboard wireless adapter I noticed an error in the dmesg output. Today I thought of another way to get linux on my computer. I now use the preinstalled Windows Vista Business (reinstalled from the recovery disk) and vmplayer from VMware with a virtual appliance....