On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:34:02 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:35:16 -0400, wrote:

Well I still have no audio.

I can get no sound from the installation on a clean HDD. Not from
Banshee or any. I notice from the settings that it would seem Ubuntu
thinks I do not have rear speakers, just front. Of course I plugged
my earphones, and then a set of speakers, to each of my two audio
plugs on the front of the case. Still no sound.

If you have it set to Stereo, two speakers, they will be 'front' speakers.
Note that front speakers have nothing to do with connecting your earphones
to the front audio jacks or the rear audio jacks. Either way, it's still
stereo, with two 'front' speakers.

'Front', in this case, refers to you sitting in a room, facing one of the
walls, and the two speakers are in 'front' of you, angled toward you. 'Rear'
speakers would be located behind you, for example. So front and rear have
nothing to do with connecting your earphones to the front or rear of the
computer. Two speaker setups, aka Stereo, will always be 'front' speakers.

The front and rear audio jacks will be exactly the same, but with one
potentially big difference. The rear audio jacks are directly connected
(built in) to the motherboard, while the front audio jacks are connected to
the motherboard with a cable. If you've knocked that cable loose or somehow
managed to disconnect it while you were removing your old optical drive,
you'll never get audio on the front jacks until you reconnect that cable.
However, that cable doesn't affect sound from the rear audio jacks. They
don't know or care if it's present or not.


Then clearly, since I can get no audio from any of the rear jacks, an
the latter are directly mounted on the mobo, the mobo is failing. It
can't be anything I jarred loose, nor can it be software and its
settings. Nice mobo. I have had a lot of 'em - never lost audio
before.

Thanks

JW