dell diminsion (sp) 2400 ac'97 sound driver not working help plz!

[tombom62]

I need the AC'97 driver or update, or somthing like ndiswrapper for audio cards, or ANYTHING.... i dont care, i just need my audio to work. if youh need more info just ask, if you know the answer, please help me.

Thanks,
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[tombom62]

help? bumpitty-bump-bump-bump!

[rokytnji]

You can start here at this page and read up on it.
Emu10k1 - ALSA wiki

and you can try either this route
Matrix:Module-emu10k1 - AlsaProject

or also go to synaptic and search alsa. select the first package and also scroll down and select the package that says alsa tools and alsa tools GUI. Alsa tools has an Emu10k1 compiler which should be of enormous help. this link contains a link for all alsa-supported creative labs cards. Yours is listed. http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...-Creative_Labs But there are no audigy cards that run 10k1, they are all either on 10k2 or a completely different driver. You should probably look at this.

And yea, I'm a big biker linuxing weirdo.

[tombom62]

im sorry, this is a bit confusing. Can you explain exactly what it is? I am a n00b and i dont know what that stuff it really.

[rokytnji]

Go to System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager.
Click on it to open it up.
Enter passord when prompted.
After it opens click on search.
Type in in alsa.
Select the first package and also scroll down and select the package that says alsa tools and alsa tools GUI.
Hit apply

After everything installs close Synaptic Package manager.
Go to Applications>accessories>Terminal
Click on it to open Terminal
type in : alsamixer
unmute anything that is muted
Slide all the sliders up to at least 80% or higher
See if you have sound after that.

[tombom62]

hmm... there seemss to be a problem:

owner@ubuntu:~$ alsamixer
No mixer elems found

what does that mean?

[rokytnji]

Ok, what do you get when you right click speaker icon on Taskbar and select Open Volume Control? And which Ubuntu are you running? And Which desktop. Since you have synaptic it is probably either XFCE or Gnome.

[rokytnji]

Another Question. Are you running in live mode or is Ubuntu Installed. Also is this a Wubi install or regular hardrive install.

[tombom62]

I have GNOME, i tried kde but HATED it. attached is a screenshot of it, if you cant raed it it says No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.

what now? oh and thanmks for the good support thus far. i will stick around for when i need more help

[rokytnji]

Have you installed Ubuntu restricted extras yet?

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

And for good measure here is your manual

Ubuntu:Intrepid -

Ubuntu:Hardy -

I included both since I aint sure which version you are using.