[SOLVED] NO audio in Ubuntu 8.1

[thornspear]

Hey, I'm new to Linux and the forum. I've just installed Ubuntu 8.1 and have no audio whatsoever. I've downloaded some codecs to play mp3's and have installed VLC media player as well. I'm getting no system sounds either.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

And yes, my faders are up

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

Try this troubleshooting guide to see if it might help find the problem:

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

[thornspear]

ah, will do! Thanks!

[thornspear]

so I've followed the troubleshooting guide, and have upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04. No sound still. I've followed it further through the alsa website and have had some different outputs from what I should be getting. For example, the "version" section comes out as:

"Driver version: $ALSA_DRIVER_VERSION" >> $FILE
echo "Library version: $ALSA_LIB_VERSION" >> $FILE
echo "Utilities version: $ALSA_UTILS_VERSION" >> $FILE

My loaded alsa modules output as:

"!!Loaded ALSA modules" >> $FILE
echo "!!-------------------" >> $FILE
echo "" >> $FILE
cat $TEMPDIR/alsamodules.tmp >> $FILE
echo "" >> $FILE
echo "" >> $FILE


Any ideas? I had WinXP running as dual boot yesterday but decided to just wipe the drive and keep ubuntu. XP sound works fine, Ubuntu hasn't worked at all. I first started with version 6.? then decided to try 8.1 to see if it would fix itself. Then upgraded to 9.04... still nothing..

[thornspear]

I'm running an emachine M5405, Ubuntu thinks my sound card is an SIS SI7012.

[coopstah13]

Did you open the volume controls and make sure that Master and PCM are all the way up and not muted?

[thornspear]

some more info...?


**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SI7012 [SiS SI7012], device 0: Intel ICH [SiS SI7012]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0



00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
Subsystem: Rioworks Device 2038
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0

[thornspear]

yes all faders are up. Including master and PCM

[coopstah13]

Lets try a few things, install paman and padevchooser

sudo apt-get install paman padevchooser

You should have under Applications->Sound an item called Pulse Audio Volume Control now, open that up. Now start something that uses audio, a flash video in firefox, video in vlc, mp3, etc. You should see it show up in here. Also under output devices, you should see your sound card, with some volume controls. If nothing shows up here then something is wrong with pulse audio.

[thornspear]

Ok, PAVC is installed. I've opened it and run an mp3 in VLC. I can see the audio level bouncing up and down in both the output devices tab as well as the playback tab. My sound card is listed as well with volume controls like you said.

Nothing is muted, faders are up, still no volume... :S