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SOLVED: No sound after login on Ubuntu Eee PC / Ubuntu Linux

I’ve posted twice recently about my problems following an upgrade of Ubuntu Netbook Remix to Lucid Lynx (10.04).  In short, I upgraded both the BIOS of the netbook (an Asus Eee PC 1008HA) and upgraded Ubuntu from 9.10 (Karmic Koala) to 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).  Once I did this the sound would disappear after the first time I logged in following each boot, and only work properly if I logged out and in again.

One kind commenter (thank you “ThrasherC”) suggested routing code

352732 – Problem in Pulse Audio” href=”https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-utils/+bug/352732/comments/77″>a solution to a similar problem.  I haven’t followed the story of the bug report and probably don’t know enough about Linux to understand it so I’m not taking responsibility for anyone else doing this. This is a statement of what I did, not advice :)

  1. Open a new terminal
  2. Issue command “sudo gedit /etc/pulse/default.pa”
  3. Find the line that says “load-module module-device-restore” and comment it out by adding a hash at the start so it reads “#load-module module-device-restore”
  4. Restart

Hope this helps someone – be that you, or me in the future.

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One Response to “SOLVED: No sound after login on Ubuntu Eee PC / Ubuntu Linux”

  1. Nuno says:
    June 15th, 2010 at 3:03 am

    Fantastic hint, two days googling around and found solution here

    Thx

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