Audio on HP laptop not working

I am using Ubuntu 6.06 and I have updated the software
13/12/2006.

Can you try the following:-

Open a terminal with Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal.

Type the following command:-

dmesg | grep -i nm256 > ~/nm256 && gedit ~/nm256

You should get a text editor with some text in it. Could you please paste the result here?

Also in the terminal what do you get if you run the following command:-

alsamixer

Hi Alan,

I got the following from the text editor command?

[ 81.630692] nm256: The device is blacklisted. Loading stopped

This was displayed after the command was entered

paul@HAL:~$ dmesg | grep -i nm256 > ~/nm256 && gedit ~/nm256
ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2102:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default

When I send the alsamixer command i get the following;

paul@HAL:~$ alsamixer

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
paul@HAL:~$

Regards
Paul.

I have found a article telling how ro install RedHat on this Laptop HP OminBook 4150

They used the following for the audio driver

• It uses the Neomagic Sound Chip which is not supported in Linux. The commercial OSS driver will work, but does not support this chip officially.

http://www.4front-tech.com/

I do not know how to load drivers in ubuntu OS?

Regards
Paul.

There is a bug filed for this problem with Dapper.
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/47706

Have you thought about upgrading to the latest version of Ubuntu?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdgyUpgrades