Can't boot from usb only disc and that's where I'm just getting a few lines of code then nothing.

I alkways found this was a good tutorial;

[all variants] Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto - Ubuntu Forums

USB bootable installs are trickier than CD installs.

The specifics of what those lines say are important.

not really, once the install image is put on the media (there's a very handy program to do just that) it ran just like a CD install.

the image on your disc could be a wrongun

I've had some issues with loading linux onto a netbook...
Sometimes it took a couple of goes...I would just get a few lines of code, or vmlinuz not found, etc.
The easiest way was installing from within Windows as windows was loaded anyway...and i wanted a dual boot system. Currently running easypeasy1.6.

just tried some of the stuff on this page

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting

and seems the driver is there and recognised, couldn't get
sudo aplay -l

to work as it said "invalid option '1'"

what, and on what, are you trying to install?

and where can i find the name of my soundcard as used in the 'manually starting the audio driver' section?

markyp - just trying to get sound to work on ubuntu 10 or install 11 to see if it sorts out the problem on a toshiba P100-240 not alongside windows.

I had a few problems when setting up soundcards...and don't think i finally sussed it. It depended on whether you were using/running Jack or Pulse....

I think you can find the name of your soundcard in Hardware/Systems settings......or there is a hardware list for the commandline (type man hardware or something)

I'll have a look tomorrow and see what my settings are.

@mike147

Try running the following from the command line :

1) "aplay -l" (not number 1 but letter l (lowercase L)
2) "lspci"

Paste output here

^ Dont need root access for that, just tested on my machine.

mikeh@mikeh-laptop:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: Conexant Digital [Conexant Digital]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

mikeh@mikeh-laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 GeForce Go 7600
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
0a:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
0a:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
0a:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
0a:04.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller
mikeh@mikeh-laptop:~$

Can you try the following :

1) Run "sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf"
2) When text editor comes up add the following lines to the end of the text file :

 options snd_hda_intel model=laptop
 options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 enable=yes

3) Reboot

Let us know how you get on.

Obviously save the file before you reboot.

If that does not work, try the following :

1) Remove two lines you have added to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
2) Save and reboot
3) Start playing music in the background
4) Run "alsamixer" and start tweaking settings
a) Press F6 to change output devices
b) Press Tab to change between "Playback" and "Capture" views and increase volume (up key) on Playback settings.
c) Some of the devices might be on "mute" [MM], change this by highlighting device and pressing "M" on your keyboard.

hyperbole - no joy - from messing around with alsa driver before i may have changed the last line of text, it contains:

Keep snd-pcsp from being loaded as first soundcard

options snd-pcsp index=-2
options snd-hda-intel model=ref

so i tried with and without it there, didn't work either way, and alas mixer seems set to the right levels without anything on mute.

any ideas of someplace i could just get it fixed for me would help

I am almost certain it's "options snd-hda-intel model=ref" line.

IntelHDA cards are know for this. They are not detected properly and you need to explicitly tell snd-hda-intel module which version you have when the system boots up and loads the module (driver if you like).

I would suggest you try this :

1)Run "lspci -v" and note exact model of you Audio device and version if any, then look up appropriate name here http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt

2) Backup /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

3) Remove these two lines

options snd-pcsp index=-2
options snd-hda-intel model=ref

4) Add this line
options snd-hda-intel model=X

Where X is the name you found in step 1.

5) Save and reboot.

I initially suggested for you to try options snd-hda-intel model="laptop" as according to the list of options most of Conexant models support this.

Hope this helps.

hyperbole - this is what lspci -v came up with for the soundcard but i can't see how you would reference anything against the webpage you lined,

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff31
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
Memory at d2500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

where am i going wrong? cheers, mike.

have you tried using "laptop"?

yes that was the first thing i tried, any other ideas anyone? anyone?

Does anyone want to buy an HP Proliant ML350 G6? Great nick..

So....
When you create a dual booting netbook, what do you do when:
a) windows won't start and you can't create a recovery disk
b) when you boot in ubuntu, there's an LED on that shouldn't be on?

I would try either:

a) Rocking backwards and forward whilst hugging my knees, and making a quiet noise of panic
b) Swear at it, and get a Live disc from work/ a friend