there is no sound when i installed ubuntu on my laptop

[edalvarez]

Hi,

I'm wondering if you can help me solve this problem i have. When i installed the ubuntu dapper drake on my toshiba satellite L30.

The soundcard is a realtek ALC861.

I am confused there is an ALSA server and an OSS server.

Can anyone help me figure out how to get the sound card working?

thank you

[antidrugue]

The soundcard is a realtek ALC861.

If I am not mystaking the module for this card should be called "snd_hda_intel".

Is it loaded ?

lsmod | grep -i snd_hda

will tell you.

If it is not, try :

sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel

And look at the output of

dmesg | tail

to make sure it loaded correctly.


If you want further help, please post the output of those commands :

dpkg -l | grep -i $(uname -r)

and

lspci | grep -i audio

[edalvarez]

hi,

thank you for the reply and help...

sorry this is late, i just got some free time to work on the sound.

i tried what you said and here are the results of the commands:

snd_hda_intel 18964 1
snd_hda_codec 154672 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 89864 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd 55268 6 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_ oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 10632 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

-laptop:~$ dmesg | tail
[17181209.252000] ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
[17181209.252000] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
[17181209.264000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (54 C)
[17181209.320000] ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
[17181209.344000] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
[17181218.476000] ath0: no IPv6 routers present
[17181311.588000] ath0: no IPv6 routers present
[17182253.016000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ath0: link is not ready
[17182255.668000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): ath0: link becomes ready
[17182265.776000] ath0: no IPv6 routers present

when i go to sound preferences, it says that the default soundcard is HDA ATI SB and i have the Enable software sound mixing check box enabled

when i use the volume control, the title say 0:HDA ATI SB alsamixer but there is also a menu option to change devices and the other one is 1: Realtek ALC861 OSS mixer.

could this be the problem?
thanks again