The Word of Chaos

I just thought I’d write a quick post about this problem.  I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04, which in my opinion is night and day better than 7.10.  My only problem was that my sound would only work once every five times that I boot my machine.  After searching around, I found a solution at robmaas.eu.

The symptoms are that your sound does not work or only works through the headphone jacks.

The solution is as follows:

1. Make a backup copy of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa_base, if you wish.
   ex: sudo cp /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.old
2. Open /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base in your favorite text editor.
   ex: sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
3. Add the following line to the end of the file:
   options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 model=basic
4. Save the changes to the file and reboot.

Hopefully, that will help others who are having the same problems I was.