MSI-X370 Ubuntu USB Problems

Ubuntu (and derivatives) 11.10 and 12.04

I recently purchased the beautiful, lightweight MSI-X370. Besides some audio issues I had, I highly recommend this laptop for Lubuntu... that is, until Ubuntu 11.10 came out.

My USB drives won't work now. I'm sure this isn't a complete fix, but it does solve the problem.

In the terminal, copy-paste:

sudo leafpad /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Note: if you are running Ubuntu, change leafpad to gedit, of course.

At the very bottom of the page, add the following line. Save. Reboot.

blacklist rts5139

I hope that helps...

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Lubuntu Sound on MSI X370

I had trouble getting sound to work on my MSI X370 after loading both Lubuntu 11.10 and 12.04. If you're having similar issues, here's what I did to get it working.

First, I installed pulseaudio and alsamixer from the Synaptic Package Manager. Open Synaptic, and search for the two items.

Pulseaudio got sound working again, but I was still having trouble binding my audio keys to the sound card because it wasn't treated as the default card. To change the default card, I entered the following into the terminal

sudo leafpad /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

and added this line to the bottom of the file:

options snd_hda_intel index=1

Reboot and crank it loud!

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