Ubuntu

No Audio

Asked by M4rotku

I have a dual booted computer: Vista and Ubuntu 7.10. The sound works in Vista, but not in Ubuntu. I have used Ubuntu on another computer and also failed to get the sound working. I have tried everything that I could find listed in the wiki and am really confused.

Here is my "aplay -l"
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
_____________________________________________________________________________

One possible problem, though I do not think it is likely, is that the sound is being blocked by the laptop before it reaches the speakers. I have a HP Pavillion laptop and it has QuickPlay control buttons located above the keyboard. Whenever i boot in Vista, the sound button is unmuted, but when i boot in Ubuntu, the light tells me that it is muted. When i toggle the button, the screen display still switches between unmuted and muted so the screen is telling me that it is unmuted at the moment. As i said, i do not think this is the problem, but i don't know for sure.

Anyone's help would be greatly appreciated in this endeavor as i am obviously in over my head.

Much thanks in advance,
Joey H. ~ M4rotku

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Zombie (initramfs) said : 		#1

Joey H,

Can you please give us the output of the following command please:
lspci | grep -i audio

With Regards,
Zombie.

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M4rotku (m4rotku-aol) said : 		#2

the results:
joey@joey-laptop:~$ lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

I hope this helps.

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Zombie (initramfs) said : 		#3

Joey H,

Try this updated Gusty l-u-m package:

just copy and paste these commands into a terminal:

wget http:people.ubuntu.com/~rtg/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-10-generic_2.6.22-10.24_i386.deb-122560.1
sudo dpkg -i linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-10-generic_2.6.22-10.24_i386.deb-122560.1
sudo reboot

or

sudo apt-get install alsa-source
cd && mkdir alsa-patched && cd alsa-patched
tar -jxvf /usr/src/alsa-driver.tar.bz2
cd modules/alsa-driver/
wget -O alsa-kernel/pci/hda/patch_analog.c http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9021234/patch_analog.c
./configure --with-cards=hda-intel && make
sudo make install
sudo cp ./modules/snd-hda-intel.ko /lib/modules/$( uname -r )/ubuntu/media/snd-hda-intel/
sudo depmod -a

Source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/122560

With Regards,
Zombie.

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M4rotku (m4rotku-aol) said : 		#4

I tried them both and it didn't work. I think it updated correctly from what I could tell, but it still doesn't work.

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M4rotku (m4rotku-aol) said : 		#5

I downloaded the beta version of ubuntu 8.04 and now the sound works excellently.

Thanks for the help in trying to diagnose the problem, from what I read, there was no way to solve it within 7.10.