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Audio problem in Ubuntu Gutsy

Asked by chr05210084 on 2008-01-24

Hello everyone,

I have Ubuntu Gutsy installed in ECS W341UI laptop, everything is working fine except the audio, sound and mic were not working. I have tried every possible solutions posted here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto and here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting. Here is the specs of my audio device:

Using lspci -vv
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Rioworks Unknown device 205f
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin ? routed to IRQ 17
        Region 0: Memory at c0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

Using cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec

Codec: SigmaTel STAC9200
Codec: Generic 11c1 Si3054

Please help. Thank you very much.

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2008-01-25
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2008-09-30
Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : #1

Is there more than one card in your system?

What do the following commands show:-

ls -l /proc/asound

cat /proc/asound/cards

chr05210084 (r-cahilig) said : #2

Hi,

The audio device is only one, it is a laptop pc, here is the output of the command:

test@test-laptop:~$ sudo ls -l /proc/asound
[sudo] password for test:
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 0 2008-01-25 23:31 card0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-01-25 23:31 cards
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-01-25 23:31 devices
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-01-25 23:31 modules
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2008-01-25 23:31 oss
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-01-25 23:31 pcm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2008-01-25 23:31 SB -> card0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2008-01-25 23:31 seq
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-01-25 23:31 timers
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-01-25 23:31 version
test@test-laptop:~$ sudo cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
                      HDA ATI SB at 0xc0500000 irq 17
test@test-laptop:~$
test@test-laptop:~$

Thank you.

sirimal (pasindumax) said : #3

buddy! first chek "IRQ" numbers in your laptop!.'cause may there was an irq crash!. if doesnt work:it's mean your sound unit non
compatible with ubuntu!.1-try to go;for motherboard manufacture and get ubntu compatible drivers!..so if doesnt work this;try to chek 1by1 with qualifide one!!.

marutee (marutee-gavalee) said : #4

marutee@marutee-laptop:/home$ ls -l /proc/asound
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 0 2008-09-30 13:01 card0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-09-30 13:01 cards
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-09-30 13:01 devices
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-09-30 13:01 modules
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2008-09-30 13:01 oss
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-09-30 13:01 pcm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2008-09-30 13:01 SB -> card0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2008-09-30 13:01 seq
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-09-30 13:01 timers
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-09-30 13:01 version
marutee@marutee-laptop:/home$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
                      HDA ATI SB at 0x92500000 irq 16

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