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How to get the speaker working on an ASUS N53J with ubunbtu 10.10

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A few weeks ago I bought a new laptop: an ASUS N53JN.

After having some trouble finding the HDD which I wanted to replace by an OCZ Vertex 2 I also had difficulty getting my speakers to work. The headphones worked fine but no sound from the speakers. After searching for quite some time I finally found the solution:

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
options snd-hda-intel model=auto

I also added the ubuntu-audio-dev repository but I’m quite sure this is not what fixed my problem…

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  1. Daniel said: 2011.01.08 21:34

    I had the same problem and this fixed the problem. Thank you.

  2. Meoiswa said: 2011.01.27 05:56

    Worked like a charm, thanks!
    Didn’t had this problem the first time I installed Ubuntu, same disk and method.

  3. Kurt said: 2011.01.28 19:19

    I had the same problem and this fixed the problem. Thank you.

  4. tom-erik said: 2011.02.10 18:33

    Thanks , worked for me to 😉 Ubuntu 64 10.10 Norway

  5. tom-erik said: 2011.02.11 22:12

    Lost sound again when upgrading to :
    tom-erik@Asus:~$ uname -a
    Linux Asus 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  6. tersmitten said: 2011.02.12 11:50

    Is that the last kernel update of 10.10? My laptop still works fine.

  7. Spiritless said: 2011.02.12 23:15

    can someon tell me how to install nvidia drivers on asus n53j ubuntu 10.10 after nvidia drivers indtall pc starts in console mode…

  8. tersmitten said: 2011.02.13 12:21

    I haven’t tried to install them since my first 10.10 install. If someone figured it out I would be glad to hear…

  9. amano said: 2011.03.03 15:15

    this didn’t work for me. I have

    Linux 2.6.35-27-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 22 20:25:46 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  10. Kalle said: 2011.03.06 21:43

    worked for me to, though I have no Volume Control or anything other than the one in the player… but atleast it plays sound…

  11. tersmitten said: 2011.03.07 11:33

    The missing volume control isn’t a bug. It’s gone since 10.04 if I’m correct. You can get it back by creating an startup entry in gnome-session-properties invoking gnome-volume-control-applet.

  12. amano said: 2011.03.09 07:30

    Hi, it worked for me but adding this at the end of the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file

    options snd-hda-intel model=auto position_fix=0

    im using Linux 2.6.35-27-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 22 20:25:46 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  13. crag said: 2011.03.11 23:16

    Works! Thank you!

  14. JP said: 2011.03.19 18:23

    It also worked for me. Thanks!

  15. kaiwan said: 2011.04.08 09:22

    Yes, worked. Thanks!

    Of course i had to restart to see the effect; and yes, Ubuntu 10.10 the file is:
    /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

    I appended the string u specified at the end..

  16. Billy Bones said: 2011.04.16 15:59

    Any suggestions on fixing it from Windows?

  17. tersmitten said: 2011.04.16 18:53

    Sure. Just install the drivers from ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download N53JN

  18. Erik Landvall said: 2011.05.30 01:31

    I’m on natty (11.04)
    I added:

    options snd-hda-intel model=auto

    to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

    That worked for me.. 🙂

  19. Joacim said: 2011.07.10 05:53

    Perfect! thanks a lot. Worked for me as well on my Asus N53J.

  20. Fredrik Åkerberg said: 2011.09.12 19:46

    Thank you so much, finally a working fix. And rather simple too.

  21. Hamed Rahmani said: 2012.11.14 21:21

    I Have same Problem
    I Install Ubuntu 10.10 for first time
    how can I use that Cods In Ubuntu ?
    Plz help me

  22. tersmitten said: 2012.11.14 21:49

    What do you mean by “Cods”?

  23. Hamed Rahmani said: 2012.11.19 11:31

    Code !
    Thank you I Worked for me as well on my Asus N53J.

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