Alsamixer at a terminal prompt
Thanks, Ubuntu Forums, for the hack that has gotten me sound -- now on Zen Walk Linux. Forget the graphical interface. Here's how I did it:
Open a terminal window, type "alsamixer" (without the quote marks)
Use the left-right arrow keys to navigate over to the Master Mono volume control
Hit "m" (again no quote marks) to unmute
Use the up arrow to pump up the volume
Success!!
I have Ethernet AND sound in Linux on the Dell. Halle-freakin-lujah.
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The standard commands for configuring a sound card using ALSA are 1) alsaconf 2) alsamixer and 3) alsactl store.
alsaconf is used to select and use the required sound card, alsamixer is used to set up the default sound levels and "alsactl store " is used to store the sound levels so that one need not adjust it on every boot. In some tools like kmix sound goes off when you try to adjust sound through it but in that case you can adjust sound through the software volume control.
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