[nzlug] SansOS Laptops Update?

[Simon Bridge]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 22:55 +1300, don.esslemont at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> On 18 Mar 2008 at 16:06, Vik Olliver wrote:
> 
> > DSE Have the Aspire 4315-100508Ci Notebook 
> > http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/en/product/XC5822 $698
> > inclusive with Ubuntu Gutsy pre-installed.

> I bought one, and I'm happy with it, except that the microphone 
> doesn't work. Acer support in Australia say:
> 
> > The microphone is not supported on this machine under Linux. There
> > is currently no driver to fix this. 
That is very remiss of them...

[snip]
> I clicked on "Go" for site 3 and got this:
> ftp://61.56.69.18/pc/audio/realtek-linux-audiopack-5.01.tar.bz2
> I now have the file realtek-linux-audiopack-5.01.tar.bz2 which may or 
> may not contain the missing driver, but I'm too ignorant to figure 
> out what to do next. Can anyone help?

That should be detected then ... have you had a look what lspci has to
say about your audiocard? If all the other sound works - then the driver
in the tarball is probably already loaded.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4528331
... suggests it may be intel chipset audio

In the top panel on the right, there is a speaker widget - rt-click it
and select "volume control". See if there is a microphone listed. If
not, go to edit > preferences and see if it is there.

---- interesting: googling, I find lots of ads but no reviews. The only
people talking about the mic don't seem to care about it. But surely
some folk want voip?

How goen the wlug harware discovery script these days - worth a try?