Toshiba M105 Realtek Audio Driver for Windows 7
December 20, 2009 //
I thought I would test Windows 7 on my old Toshiba M105 laptop but I was surprised to find out that Windows 7 did not install my audio driver automatically. The motherboard contains a Realtek ALC861 chip and so I started to look for the drivers.
It turns out that Toshiba does not provide support for Windows 7 for laptops manufactured prior to 2007. Sadly I belonged to that category. Although I found the driver on Realtek website at this link there were a couple of interesting things about the driver issue.
Firstly, Bing returned much more valuable results for the most search queries related to the issue than Google. This was surprising that I normally use Google but just decided to try Bing after not finding the required stuff after a couple of searches at Google. If nothing else, this incident would definitely make me try Bing search more often than I used to.
Secondly, I also installed Ubuntu 9.10 on the same laptop and to my surprise, Ubuntu automatically installed the driver for my laptop. This was a good experience with Ubuntu specially with the drivers. I remember that with most distros I had to manually install it. Good going Ubuntu ![]()
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