I can confirm the 14.04 livecd has working sound. Everything seems to work out of the box, sound, video, wifi, volume hardware buttons.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1178897 Title: [Asus W7J] No sound on laptop Status in ALSA driver: Unknown Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Ubuntu 12.10 Asus W7J Laptop Soundcard: Realtek ALC600 I am not getting ANY sound from speakers or headphones. I have tried playing CD's, looking at YouTube videos..no sound. The only sould I ever get is on initial startup when the ASUS logo appears. I have looked at other forums. and looked at alsamixer, there is nothing in the master column apart from 00 and definately NO Auto Mute! Yes I have made sure nothing is muted as well. I have had a look in the BIOS setttings and no luck there either. 00 master (nothing between the "00" and "master" and no column above the "00") The fields I have are below. < Master > PCM CD S/PDIF S/PDIF Default Beep Caller ID Off-hook I have also gone and re-installed Ubuntu..still no luck. Please Help To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/alsa-driver/+bug/1178897/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
