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Ubuntu ASUS A7V8X = NO SOUND

Asked by AdamWarlock

Anyone care to help me with my NO SOUND issue using Ubuntu 6.06? I have a ASUS A7V8X Motherboard with onboard AC'97 sound chip. Worked perfectly in Windows XP. When I formatted my drive and installed Ubuntu clean, I cannot get it to work. No sound at all. Any ideas?

lspci result:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600
AGP] Host Bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T
(rev 01)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS
[Radeon 9550]
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 ?? [Radeon
9550] (Secondary)

lsmod result:
Module Size Used by
rfcomm 40216 0
l2cap 26244 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 49892 4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev 9220 0
radeon 116000 1
drm 73236 2 radeon
ipt_TCPMSS 4608 1
ipt_tcpmss 2432 1
iptable_filter 3072 1
ip_tables 22400 3 ipt_TCPMSS,ipt_tcpmss,iptable_filter
cpufreq_userspace 4696 0
cpufreq_stats 5636 0
freq_table 4740 1 cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
cpufreq_ondemand 6428 0
cpufreq_conservative 7332 0
video 16260 0
tc1100_wmi 6916 0
sony_acpi 5644 0
pcc_acpi 12416 0
hotkey 11556 0
dev_acpi 11140 0
container 4608 0
button 6672 0
acpi_sbs 19980 0
battery 9988 1 acpi_sbs
ac 5252 1 acpi_sbs
i2c_acpi_ec 5120 1 acpi_sbs
pppoe 14400 2
pppox 3720 1 pppoe
ipv6 265600 8
af_packet 22920 2
ppp_generic 30100 6 pppoe,pppox
slhc 7424 1 ppp_generic
md_mod 72532 0
lp 11844 0
tsdev 8000 0
snd_seq_dummy 3844 0
quickcam 78372 0
videodev 9856 1 quickcam
i2c_viapro 8980 0
snd_seq_oss 33536 0
i2c_core 21904 2 i2c_acpi_ec,i2c_viapro
snd_seq_midi 9376 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7552 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 51984 6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
usbhid 38368 0
pcspkr 2180 0
via_ircc 26900 0
irda 186940 1 via_ircc
parport_pc 35780 1
parport 36296 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
floppy 62148 0
crc_ccitt 2304 1 irda
snd_via82xx 28824 1
snd_ac97_codec 92704 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus 2304 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 53664 0
snd_mixer_oss 18688 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 89864 3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25220 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10632 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 7808 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 25504 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8716 5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
rtc 13492 0
shpchp 45632 0
analog 12320 0
pci_hotplug 29236 1 shpchp
gameport 15496 2 snd_via82xx,analog
snd 55268 13
snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
b44 25740 0
mii 5888 1 b44
soundcore 10208 1 snd
psmouse 36228 0
serio_raw 7300 0
via_agp 9856 1
agpgart 34888 2 drm,via_agp
evdev 9856 1
ext3 135688 1
jbd 58772 1 ext3
dm_mod 58936 1
ide_generic 1536 0
ehci_hcd 32008 0
uhci_hcd 33680 0
usbcore 129668 5 quickcam,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
ide_cd 33028 0
cdrom 38560 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 17664 3
via82cxxx 9988 0 [permanent]
generic 5124 0
thermal 13576 0
processor 23360 1 thermal
fan 4868 0
fbcon 42784 0
tileblit 2816 1 fbcon
font 8320 1 fbcon
bitblit 6272 1 fbcon
softcursor 2304 1 bitblit
capability 5000 0
commoncap 7296 1 capability

When I open the alsamixer, it recognizes my onboard AC97 sound card. I have unmuted all the channels and pumped up the volume. Still no sound.

Just let me know what other info I can supply to help this matter! Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde) said : 		#1

Please let me know what file sare you trying to play?

Your sound card is well supported. It might be the problem with file you are trying to play being restricted format.

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats

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jonmichi (jonmichi) said : 		#2

I have an ASUS M2N E SLI motherboard with onboard sound also that UBUNTU is not recognizing. Here is my result
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev f3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:08.0 RAID bus controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev f3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev f3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev f3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev f3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev c0)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7900 GS (rev a1)

IT looks like we are in the same boat. Maybe there is not a fix to this.

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Bob Dillon (cruffler03) said : 		#3

One of the things I have found with the Ubuntu sound issues is that even though the sound card is supported, your audio configuration or preferences are not set properly.

This is what I did to get my audio working on a Gigabyte MB.

First off, make sure that your on board audio is enabled in the BIOS.

Right click on your sound icon in the panel.

Select preferences

Select HDA ATI SB (Alsa Mixer) as your device.

Select PCM as the audio track to control.

Close the window.

Go to System --> Preferences --> Sound

I left all of my settings for Auto-Detect.

To the right of each of your detected sound options, there is a button called "Test". Click on that. If you hear an audio tone, then you have the right sound card configuration.

If still no sound, go to your panel, right click on your speaker, and select "Open Volume Control"

Go to Edit, then select Preferences.

Make sure that the correct speaker channels are enabled, ie, Left, Right, Center, Rear etc. I have front and rear ports on my motherboard that correspond to Side and Left in the audio setup. Try enabling all outputs in your audio preferences. You're bound to get sound out of one of them!

Cheers!

Bob

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jonmichi (jonmichi) said : 		#4

Bob thanks for the answer. I forgot to get back in here and let everyone know I found the answer to my problem. I just pulled an old sound card from an old computer and put it in there and went to BIOS and disabled onboard sound and enabled that card. Once I did this it was WALLLLAAA sound. So as I sit now I have sound for the time being.

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