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No Sound Ubunto 8.04 on Laptop

Asked by YC12

Warning, I am a Ubuntu Novice.

The deal is that last night sound was working, then I installed my graphics card update and now sound is not working.

I was reading some of the other help postings to see if they would fix my problem before I posted and none of them did. I guess the problem is that I do not know where to start. On a different note when I ran the hardware test I did not see the video portion (failed that also).

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 200 (RS480/RS482/RX480/RX482) Chipset - Host bridge (rev 01)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI-X Root Port
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc SB400 AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
03:05.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
03:07.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)

I appreciate the assistance.

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

First i suggest you to be sure your system is fully upgraded, to check:
open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get autoremove

then please reboot your system, type

sudo reboot

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

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Then please put your modem modules into blacklist

To do this, open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

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

at bottom of list, add a new row and type...

# Please don't load the snd-atiixp-modem
snd-atiixp-modem

then save and reboot your system.

Hope this helps

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YC12 (msklyc) said : 		#2

Thank you for the information. I followed your guidance line by line carefully making sure to type the line request in exactly as you did. However I still am not able to hear anything. Problem still exists. =(

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YC12 (msklyc) said : 		#3

Woh ... Strike that, I think your miracle worker! I am able to hear sound now!

However I do not hear it on the boot up / log out.

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YC12 (msklyc) said : 		#4

Thanks marcobra, that solved my question.