no sound

[supertappy]

well i did it

i have xp on one partition and ubuntu 8.10 on another

when the machine starts up something called grub starts and asks if i want ubuntu or xp

strange thing is i never installed any drivers on ubuntu and everything but sound works. sound in xp is fine, it's off the mottherboard, no sound card

on xp I had to i had to install all the motherboard drivers to get sound working

sound does not work in ubuntu ie in youtube

not sure where to go from here

the motherboard is a gigabyte ma790x-ds4

strangely i used the same cd on my wife's laptop and sound works fine

jt

[L4Linux]

Go to Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

alsamixer

Raise the 2 left channels (or the 1 channel, if it shows only 1) all the way to the top. Press ctrl+c to exit alsamixer. Also check the sound volume applet on the top taskbar.

[supertappy]

well i tried it and got

a@neptune:~$ alsamixer
alsamixer: aborting due to signal `Interrupt'

i do do have a sound card in one of the old computers, it's just weird that this motherboad speaker it works on the same dual dual xp installation

jt

[L4Linux]

well i tried it and got
a@neptune:~$ alsamixer
alsamixer: aborting due to signal `Interrupt'

That is what it says when you press ctrl+c to exit alsamixer.
You did raise the channels all way up before you closed it, right?

[supertappy]

darn, looks like 8.10 and the motherboard have will not support sound

Is DTS Connect on the RealTek ALC889A supported on Ubuntu 8.04? - Ubuntu Forums

[D-cat]

try alsamixer -c0 to bypass pulse.

If the top left shows your correct card (even if you can't get audio), we might be able to fix it, at least basic.

[supertappy]

ok, I typed this into the consle, after looking here and got this response

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting

lspci -v | less

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff01
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at dc440000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

the access denied bit looks worrying

[D-cat]

The "Access Denied" is only because you didn't execute with "sudo". It's NBD.

Intel cards have a short but epidemic history of silence in recent Ubuntu releases. Apparently, the devs scrambled to implement the PulseAudio server without really reading up on the peculiarities of specific cards. As a result, various cards, especially in the Intel family, have been configured with a bunch of zero defaults or specific cards aren't specifically identified and given the proper options. in the various config files.

My net connection is real shoddy right now or I'd do it for you, but I suggest you research Intel 82801G Ubuntu in a search engine, you'll probably find a good hit fairly quickly.

[supertappy]

It seems Intel 82801G will not work on ubuntu 8.10

I'm using an AMD board, not intel

I'm happy to use a soundcard if that will solve the problem, can anyone suggest one?

jt

[dale456654]

Im using SBPCI128 and it works fine in ubuntu, (better quality than windows) without any drivers to worry about.