no sound Gateway MT6451 Notebook

Asked by funkshun

I just installed Ubuntu two days ago. I have no sound. I have media software installed along with the mixer showing up on my panel right next to the Date and time, but still no sould.

I have a Gateway MT6451 Notebook. This is the audio specs are right here for this laptop.
Audio chipset: SigmaTel 9250
   * Audio features:
          o SoundBlaster® Pro, MIDI and Windows® Sound System compatible
          o 3D Sound Support
          o 64-channel Wavetable Synthesis
          o Audio AC '97 2.3 compliant
    * Integrated speakers
    * Two audio jacks
          o Headphone
          o Microphone
    * Keyboard volume and mute controls

I then proceded to follow this guide.
http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Comprehensive_Sound_Problems_Solutions_Guide

In terminal: aplay -l ### this produces
funkshun@funkshun-laptop:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Then I type i in terminal to see if my sound card is listed ( I cant see it. If it's here I dont know how to reconize it): lspci -v
funkshun@funkshun-laptop:~$ lspci -v
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 0367
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a3f (prog-if 00 [ Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
        I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
        Memory behind bridge: c0100000-c01fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c8000000-00000000cff00000
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a36 (prog-if 00 [ Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
        Memory behind bridge: c0200000-c02fffff
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a37 (prog-if 00 [ Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: c0300000-c03fffff
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 0367
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 225
        Memory at c0004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 0367
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 225
        Memory at c0005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 0367
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 225
        Memory at c0006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 83)
        Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 0367
        Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
        I/O ports at 8400 [size=16]
        Memory at fed00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE C ontroller ATI (rev 80) (prog-if 82 [Master PriP])
        Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 0367
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 217
        I/O ports at <ignored>
        I/O ports at <ignored>
        I/O ports at <unassigned>
        I/O ports at <unassigned>
        I/O ports at 8410 [size=16]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:14.2 0403: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 437b (rev 01)
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 437b
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 217
        Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
        Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 0367
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=0c, sec-latency=64
        I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
        Memory behind bridge: c0400000-c04fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 50000000-51ffffff

0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Hyp erTransport Technology Configuration
        Flags: fast devsel
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Add ress Map
        Flags: fast devsel

0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRA M Controller
        Flags: fast devsel

0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Mis cellaneous Control
        Flags: fast devsel
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 597 5 (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 0367
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 10
        Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
        Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown device 4352 (rev 14)
        Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 0367
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 233
        Memory at c0200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4311 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 0465
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 50
        Memory at c0300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:08:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8039
        Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 0367
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 185
        Memory at c0404000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Bus: primary=08, secondary=09, subordinate=0c, sec-latency=176
        Memory window 0: 50000000-51fff000 (prefetchable)
        Memory window 1: 52000000-53fff000
        I/O window 0: 00002000-000020ff
        I/O window 1: 00002400-000024ff
        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:08:09.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments: Unknown device 803a (prog- if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 0367
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 177
        Memory at c0405000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Memory at c0400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:08:09.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 803b
        Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 0367
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at c0406000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

So I believe I have a Sigmatel chip. I cant find it in here when I input in kernel: lspci -v.

I also checked the website: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ and could not find the sigmatel driver. Can anyone help. I'm a two-day old noob when it comes to linux. Any help would be appriciated. Thanks.

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funkshun (michaelmcday) said :
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It's Ubuntu 6.06.1 sorry for forgetting this

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said :
#2

You should install the new ALSA drivers. Have a look here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto

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funkshun (michaelmcday) said :
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Thanks so much. That was smooth process.

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dogsurfer (dog-surfer) said :
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Same sound problem with my Asus AJ8S. Same SUCCESSFUL(!!!) solution, using the install HdaIntelSoundHowto link. The instructions are a work of art.