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    No soundcards found & Adobe flash

    Just installed Jaunty 9.04 and cannot play any cd's or music files, view or hear youtube.
    I tried to download adobe flash but the file just sits on the desktop, cannot open.
    results:
    bryan@bryan-desktop:~$ aplay -l
    aplay: device_list:217: no soundcards found...
    bryan@bryan-desktop:~$

    I kept my notes from my install on 8.04 but I am still Lost.

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    I tried alpha-X-geek's GREAT Tutorial [all variants] Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto - Ubuntu Forums
    starting with this cmnd:
    sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/`lsb_release -cs`.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list; sudo apt-get -q update; sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring; sudo apt-get -q update


    BOTTOM PART OF RESULTS(Last 2 paragrapgs):

    Get:4 Medibuntu -- Medibuntu packages jaunty/non-free Packages [7943B]
    Fetched 23.1kB in 1s (12.7kB/s)
    W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release i386 (20090420.1)/dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs

    W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release i386 (20090420.1)/dists/jaunty/restricted/binary-i386/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs

    E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
    bryan@bryan-desktop:~$

    Not sure if this tutorial will SEE or install my sound card???

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    lspci -v search for multimedia audio controler and look for field : kernel driver in use
    if there is nothing some how ubuntu did not recognize your sound card which is rare
    there is a couple a thinks you can do :
    1.you can install hwinfo apt-get install hwinfo and then type in shell hwinfo --sound you will see a couple a fields you need to look only to Model :
    which represent your sound card
    2.type dmesg | less and search for ALSA device list
    3.you can install module assistant and after you have model of your card type module-assistant form graphical menu choose SELECT and search for appropriate driver or choose alsa
    4.or you can download the new kernel and boot

    there is other ways but more tech savvy
    You need to be root for all that

    If somethink is not clear write

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    Quote Originally Posted by memdump View Post
    lspci -v search for multimedia audio controler and look for field : kernel driver in use
    if there is nothing some how ubuntu did not recognize your sound card which is rare
    there is a couple a thinks you can do :
    1.you can install hwinfo apt-get install hwinfo and then type in shell hwinfo --sound you will see a couple a fields you need to look only to Model :
    which represent your sound card
    2.type dmesg | less and search for ALSA device list
    3.you can install module assistant and after you have model of your card type module-assistant form graphical menu choose SELECT and search for appropriate driver or choose alsa
    4.or you can download the new kernel and boot

    there is other ways but more tech savvy
    You need to be root for all that

    If somethink is not clear write
    Thanks memdump,
    When I finished the tutorial I forgot to reboot, so now I have rebooted and now I have music videos youtube and can play my music cd's.

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