I have an external hard drive which is not working in windows. When i insert it, it plays the sound of new hard ware found but its not apearing on my computer. i have downloaded a live cd of knoppix and i am able to access my files on the drive. My question is, Is there a way i could format this drive in linux as i cant use it in windows. it is NTSF formart at the moment. any ideas. ps i am a linux noob
Just got Ubuntu 6.06 on Live CD and there is no sound. Everything else works fine,I get sound on my Windows. I tried installing libsdl1.2debian-alsa but apparently dependency is not satisfiable. Any help?!
please
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Tagged alsa, dependency, everything, fine, help, libsdl, Linux, Live, sound, Ubuntu, windows
Hey there,
I bought the Gateway NX850X notebook around november 2005.
Everything worked fine but now I totally formated my harddrive and no wI don’t have any sound anymore.
My new OS is Microsoft Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2+), Gateway just had Windows XP Home pre-installed when they delivered it.
The soundcard is not defect, I tried out Knoppix (some linux OS that boots from CD) and I had sound there, but there is no possible way to install sound drivers on Win XP.
It always tries to install the CONEXANT AC-LINK AUDIO drivers. I tried to install any AC97 drivers (Realtek AC97) but it didn’t work. The Conexant driver always comes back up again but I don’t have any sound.
The Gateway online support chatted with me for quite a while and also tried to fix the problem with some remote software but nothing worked. They offered me to send a driver CD but I am living in Germany and they won’t send it over here. Does anybody have an idea which drivers to take?
Thanks you 
Ben
Nope, in the control panel it says something like “No sound device” (might be different in English, I just translated it from German windows ^^)
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Tagged driver, driver problem, Gateway, Hey, notebook, problem, sound, sound driver
The computer used to boot up and work, but after a few minutes it would crash and give the blue screen of death. I thought maybe the OS had become corrupted so I deleted the current partition and created a new one so that I could reinstall Windows. However it crashed several times during the OS setup and never finished installing.
I tried using a Linux Live CD (which loads entirely into ram) and it ran fine for hours, it never crashed. I finally tried installing Linux onto the harddrive but it failed as well, now the partition editor in Linux doesn’t even recognize the HD device.
Does this situation sound like a HD failure? A while back I thought it could possibly be the power-supply but now I’m leaning towards the HD. The computer is an EMachine Desktop, bought in 2005.
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Tagged blue screen of death, boot, computer, Death, drive, few minutes, hard, Hard Drive, os setup, partition, reinstall, screen, several times, sound, work
I have a Dell XPS M1210. I dualboot XP and Linux Mint 6. Also, I have recently run a live CD for crunchbang. In XP and Crunchbang sound works well, and sounds great. In Mint, I get sound, but the sound is crackly. I know it isn’t the hardware, because it sounds great on 2 other OSes. Any Ideas?
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Tagged Crunchbang, dell xps, dualboot, hardware, Linux, Mint, OSes, question, sound
