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No sound with Ubuntu 7.10 but ok with Windows XP

Asked by Noel Murphy

Ineed help on sound. I use Windows XP and dual boot to Ubuntu 7.10. Under Win XP my speakers work fine. Under Ubuntu nothing but this error pops up when I try to play back a CD . The drive shows that the CD is mounted and even lists correctly the tracks. The error msg is "PLAYBACK ERROR Could not open resource for writing." If I click Play againg this 2nd msg box pops up "Internal GStreamer error: state change failed. Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer." I already checked that my Admin user id is set for Use Audio Devices. I dont have a regular user id yet. I am new to Linux. The Volume Icon has a red&white mark and produce this msg when viewed "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found." When I go to a Terminal window and display "lspci" I get this back. 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0e.0 Token ring network controller: IBM 16/4 Token ring UTP/STP controller (rev 66)
00:0f.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03)
00:11.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 24)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c)
02:09.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
02:09.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
02:09.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)

Help please what should I do?

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Zombie (initramfs) said : 		#1

Noel Murphy,

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

With Regards,
Zombie.

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Noel Murphy (murphy69) said : 		#2

I entered exactly lspci | grep -i audio and nothing was displayed only the terminal prompt that was there.. see output .....

noel69ux@noel69ux-desktop:~$
noel69ux@noel69ux-desktop:~$ lspci | grep -i audio
noel69ux@noel69ux-desktop:~$

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Zombie (initramfs) said : 		#3

Noel Murphy,

Can you please give us some detail about your sound card.
If you don't have one installed, give us info about the make and model of your motherboard.

With Regards,
Zombie.

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Noel Murphy (murphy69) said : 		#4

Dell computer OptiPlex GX1 450Mbr+
BIOS version A06
Firmware release date 04/28/1999
System kernel machine string i686
string Linux string 2.6.22-14 generic

info.bus string platform
info.linux.driver string pcspkr
info.parent string /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer
info.product string Platform device (pcspkr)
info.subsystem string platfrom
info.udi string /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/patform_pcspkr
linux.hotplug_type int 2(0x2)
linux.subsystem string platform
linux.sysfs_path string /sys/devices/paltform/pcspkr
platform.id string pcspkr

info.product string pcSpeaker
info.udi string /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_pcspkr_logicaldev_input
linux.sysfs_path string /sys/class/input/input3/event3

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Noel Murphy (murphy69) said : 		#5

DEll Computer OptiPlex GX1 450Mbr+ system type X86-based PC
Processor x86 family 6 Model 5 Stepping 2 GenuineIntel ~447Mhz
Bios version/Date Dell Computer A06. 4/28/1999
SMBIOS Ver 2.2
Total Physical memory 512 MB
Hardware abstraction layer Version
"5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"

The speaker plugs into the bottom back of desktop unit. I believe the speaker ard is built into the motherboard.

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Noel Murphy (murphy69) said : 		#6

Problem solved - Even though my software settings were all correct and under Win XP the sound worked great playing back a CD it failed with Ubuntu 7.10. My speaker input/output plugs are attached to the mother board. I took advantage of a $7.95 sale on a 32 bit PCI sound card. After installing it without using the Windows install CD I now have sound although very very low volume. I tried turning up the speakers and the volume setting in [ Juicer 2.20.1 ] all the way to max but still very low volume. After buying a low cost speaker set for $19.95 that came with an electric plug instead of using batteries everything was perfect. So I have now 2 speakers circuits in my machine. I have not yet tried dual booting back to Windows XP to see if it is confused, because who needs Windows XP. I would like to thank whomever Zombie is. He or she was the only one to reply twice to try and help me. This pushed me to resolve the problem another way. I also want to say this was my first ever use of a public online forum for anything ( hardware,software,politics anything at all ) It turned out to be a very nice experience. Especially thanks to "Zombie"