After I stepped on my Vaio mini-laptop, I realized "whooops!" I need another laptop. A blessing in disguise, the Vaio was 3 years old, slow, clogged up with whatever useless junk. And a great chance to dump Windows.
I hopped on my bike and was at Best Buy, licketty-split. "Sir can I help you?" turned in a quick "What's the cheapest laptop here?" I fended off the upsell and got my hands on a mispriced Compaq with a real AMD processor. I didn't want to hear about how this box doesn't work well on Windows 7.
It was mismarked $50 less at $349. Cool. Paid. Done. Back on my bike towards home.
I installed Ubuntu 10.04, everything was smooth except my speakers didn't make any sound. I checked the soundcard settings, it plays sound through the headphone jack. Hmmmm.
Google saved the day. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1451767
A quick installation of some software and a reboot then my speakers started making music!
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic
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