sound card support

tomian64,

Fire up a Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and give us the output of the following command:
lspci | grep -i audio

With Regards,
Zombie.

Results:

04:07.0 Multimedia Video: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)

04:07.1 Multimedia Controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [Audio port] (rev 05)

04:07.2 Multimedia Controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MEPG Port] (rev 05)

0a:04.0 Multimedia Audio Controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8778 [Oxygen HD Audio]

This is what came up in terminal. What do I do now. LINUX NEWBEE!

Audio trouble with Ubuntu 8.04 some common checks

-- If you are using a laptop, your laptop may have a keyboard function to manipulate your sound.
   Check that. Your laptop may have a keyboard control to mute, increase and decrease sound.
-- Please check your sound devices volumes are to a high level double click on the top right loudspeaker icon you will see a mixer
-- Please make common test from menu System->Preferences->Sounds
-- If you have two audio cards - please disable the on board audio card using BIOS setting, please check with this terminal command:

   lspci | grep -i audio

-- Please be sure your pc are starting with the generic kernel press ESC at boot when you see the GRUB row then select the "kernel.... - generic" row
-- Please be sure all needed kernel modules are installed to make this check and install them:
  So open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install linux-ubuntu-modules-$(uname -r)

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then reboot your pc.

-- Be sure your user is member of audio group
Then open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo adduser $(who am i | cut -d" " -f 1) audio
sudo chmod 660 /dev/snd/*

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

-- Please try to watch what audio cards are detected on your system please type:
asoundconf list

if more than one sound cards is detected by your system to set the default soundcard

asoundconf set-default-card PARAMETER

change PARAMETER with the name of a one detected sound card

-- Please try to delete making a backup copy of this conf files
mv .asoundrc .asoundrc_old
mv .asoundrc.asoundconf .asoundrc.asoundconf.old
sudo mv /etc/asound.conf /etc/asound.conf.old

Please take a look at this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449

-- Please try to discover if there are any process they are keeping the /dev/dsp locked
ps -edalf | grep -i dsp

kill them using this command:

kill -9 number_of_pid

Hope this helps

I'm having this issue too. I have a Xonar DX audio card and I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 (64-bit), and I get the error, "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.", when I try to open Volume Control.

@ Jephir

Please don't append a new question on a already answered or marked as solved question.
Please make new question from here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
you will get better chance to get right answer on a fresh tagged "open" question.
Solved or answered question are usually not read from answering people.

Thank you