No sound in Ubuntu!

[trj021782]

Ok, so I just started using linux recently and every time I try to do something I can't until I figure out the way linux wants it done. I have figured out most of it on my own but now I need to find a way to get the sound to work. The OS says it has the drivers but no matter what source or what kind of file I can get no sound, suggestions?

FYI the sound card I have is an onboard on an asus P4P800 - E and the card is ALC850 Avance AC'97

[Arthur Archnix]

Try this thread first, it will help you to either solve the problem yourself, or else provide some more information about what the problem is.

Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide - Ubuntu Forums

[trj021782]

Thank you for your suggestion, however after referring to that website and following the instructions I have made the following determinations:

1. My speakers work
2. My sound card is activated in BIOS
3. My sound card is recognized by Ubuntu
4. My drivers are installed
5, The sound is Un-muted
6. I still have no sound in any aspect of Ubuntu.

Do you have any more suggestions?

[Arthur Archnix]

Perhaps. That is a great summary of the problem by the way. Exactly what I was hoping for (well, I was hoping it would have solved your problem, but I'm glad we've eliminated some of the more common problems).

A bit more info is needed at this point. You computer name, model, desktop or laptop, current kernel version and your audio card. The first three you likely know easy enough, the last two can be found by punching this into a terminal:

uname -r
lspci | grep Audio

[trj021782]

Well you are in luck, Information is something I have plenty of.

This is a custom built machine using an Asus P4P800 - E motherboard with on-board ALC850 Avance AC'97 sound card ( AKA: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)) and my kernel is 2.6.22-14-generic.

Just in case is matters at all, this is (obviously) a P4. It is a 3.2 ghz running the 400 mhz front side 1.5 g ram 2 belkin wireless cards a Marvell 88E8001 gigabit network card a generic 10/100 card using the VIA VT6105 chipset. It also has a Radeon 9800 pro. I have 2 western digital ultra ata/133 HD's: one is a 60 g dual booting Xp pro SP2 and Ubuntu 7.10 the other is a 120 g storage drive with no important system files of any kind on it. I have a 2 optical drives: one CD +/- R and one DVD +/- R. I have no floppy drive. This computer does support RAID and SATA, although I am not currently using either.

If there is any more information I can provide please just ask. (although for the life of me the only thing I left out is the power supply,,,,, and it is an Antek 430w sata compatible, but it still has native molex connectors.)

[Arthur Archnix]

I can't find any info about that audio card. Can you post the output of those two commands?

[buteman]

Maybe this thread will help.
[SOLVED] No sound, Znote 6024W (Realtek ALC26 - Page 4 - Ubuntu Forums
My main problem was having Alsa1.0.14 installed.
Installing Alsa 1.0.15 solved most of the problems

[trj021782]

The outputs from both of those commands are in the first paragraph of my previous post but just in case here you go.

1 Kernel is = 2.6.22-14-generic

2 Sound is = 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

[trj021782]

Also in response to buteman, Thank you for the suggestion but it was un-successful.

any other ideas?

[buteman]

It's a while since I did this and it took a lot of experimenting.
One thing I did find was this :
After installing the newly package and adding the following line in
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:
options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba

Note: You can specify one of the following model : acer, toshiba, 3stack
or auto

it worked

My laptop is a Zepto so be aware that it doesn't seem to matter which yours is rather which one it works with!!