no sound and extrem frustration

[bullfrog83]

i have an old comp that i instaled ubuntu on i love it except for a few bugs that i don't have th experince to fix my comp is a gateway E-3100 (yes that is right i can't find anything on it eaither nor could gateway ) i am running ubuntu 8.10 and have tried everything i can find on getting my sound to work (this is the latest Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide - Ubuntu Forums ) and had no luck the sound card is a creative labs sound blaster vibra 16 ISA . ubuntu does not find it and i had no problems when i was using windows ( well not with the sound lol the rest is a differnt story but anyway...) any help would be greatly appreatied
Thank You

[D-cat]

Check the following link:
ISA Sound Blaster not recognized [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums

[bullfrog83]

thank youfor this but once agine card is still not detected any further help will be appreated i am really stumped by this and don't want to invest any money in this comp. for new cards altho i am willing to put in the time and learn about the system but at this point i could pull out my hair lol

[jmadero]

maybe try replacing ALSA with OSS:

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

[D-cat]

Check this page on settng up modprobe for sb16: Matrix:Module-sb16 - AlsaProject

If it doesn't help after a reboot, type in lsmod | grep snd to see what if any sound modules are loading.

Edit: or go along with jMadero's suggestion. OSS doesn't have some of the features of ALSA, but those extras often don't work right on ISA cards anyway. OSS should at least make the card produce some sort of noise!