[SOLVED] Intel Desktop board

[kovach]

my sony vaio Intel Desktop board# d945ppr had a built-in sound and i dont know how to reinstall it. i just formatted the comp. and reinstalled xp and ubuntu on it and lost all sound

ive tried to install it in xp but it wont let me some kinda error msg so i want to try to on ubuntu can anyone help me email me thanks

[noprob]

my suggestion would be to go to Dell support online.
click around until you locate downloads or support.
also you could type in your Dell model in the search field which should point you to the driver(s) you may need to allow sound to work on your computer in windows.

[coopstah13]

The sound should just work on ubuntu, you shouldn't need to do anything. What version of ubuntu are you using? The latest versions usually have the best hardware support. If you open a terminal and type in aplay -l you can see if any sound cards were detected. If they were, then most likely you have some volume settings incorrect.

[kovach]

* List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

im missing the idt high definition audio codec, sm bus controller and video controller (vga compatible)

[coopstah13]

Your audio card is detected and usable by your user, so this means your volume settings are most likely incorrect. You will have to change them with alsamixer or one of the other GUI tools.

[kovach]

can you give me step by step on how to do this coopstah13?

[coopstah13]

if you are using regular ubuntu (gnome) just right click the volume icon in the top right corner and click open volume control, make sure PCM and master are unmuted and turned up enough

[kovach]

thanks is works good now