how do i get the sound to work

[smart_not]

Thanks to this site i have learned many new things about Linux, but I require your help again! I cant get the sound to work at all. Any ideas?

All i know is i have Ubuntu 2.6.24-24-generic and when i hook speakers(unknown model) or headphones there is no sound at all. and I've checked master volume, other audio options.

[robertdaleweir]

Hi
What are you using to create the output. ie what media player, audio player or whatnot? I assume that Ubuntu uses ALSA and Pulse Audio. Is that what is installed? Sometimes the Media Player will have setting which need to be changed from say OSS to ALSA. Try these things and post back. Cheers...
Robert

[smart_not]

how do i check for oss or alsa

[robertdaleweir]

Hi
I am using Fedora and on my system I do a #yum list all | grep alsa as root
I assume, (do not currently have a Ubuntu distro running) that it has a package manager such as apt-get, synaptic or packman. It really doesn't matter as long as it has a list function for all installed packages. Run the package manager in list mode and pipe it through grep looking for alsa. ie #apt-cache pkgnames | grep alsa. I am not sure I have the exact syntax but on your system you should be able to do a man pages of apt-get (I know I used apt-cache) and figure it out.
This will only tell you whether you have alsa installed, and I am quite sure you do. I use rythmbox for my music player and as such I must make sure that it is using alsa and not OSS. See if you can get the fact that alsa is your sound server and tell me what you use to play music. Cheers...
Robert

[D-cat]

Also it helps to know what your audio card is and what module (if any) is loaded for it. Type this in a terminal window and show us the output:

lspci -nnk | grep -iA 2 audio

Thank you.