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Sound Problem Intel82801H

Asked by LODRazor

I have a lenovo laptop with an Intel 965 Express chipset and Intel 82801H (ICH8 Family) onboard sound. I have no sound for anything. I have a new install of 7.10. I can enter Volume Control and it shows the device as HDA Intel (Alsa mixer) with the option to choose Realtek ALC861-VD (OSS mixer). In System>Preferences>Sound all hardware selections are set to Autodetect, and I have the options of ALC861VD Analog, ALSA Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, ESD Enlightened Sound Daemon, and OSS Open SOund System. No mater which device I choose, you cannot hear the TEST sound. No errors, no error messages, just no sound. Hardware information does show the sound card also. Could it be a bad install? Any help would be appreciated.

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Max Schukin (schukin) said : 		#1

LODRazor, maybe you'd better to wait for Hardy Heron (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyHeron) or try a beta version (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyHeron/Beta).

Many sound issues were fixed in Hardy.

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LODRazor (mlee-co) said : 		#2

Thanks, Max for your answer. Actually I have found a workaround in the Ubuntu forums.

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Abhishek (abhishekrane) said : 		#3

@LODRazor it would be great if you provide a link to the post in ubuntuforums which help you solve your problem so that it can be of some help to others with similar problems

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

I think this works on Lenovo please go to end of this answer:

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Open a terminal from Application->Accessories->Terminal and type:

asoundconf list
> asoundconf give you the name of recognized audio cards

asoundconf set-default-card PARAMETER
> change the PARAMETER value with the one returned by "asoundconf list"

then add your user to audio group
sudo adduser <your_username> audio

Be sure that your user are enable to use audio by checking
System->Administration->User and Group-> Select "Your user name" -> Properties ...

Then reboot to be sure that all paramaters are reloaded.

Try your audio don't forget to double click on the upper right loudspeaker icon to check your devices volume and or by changing the device by select the File->Change Device

Test your audio System from System->Preferences->Audio

if the card is the nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
then using terminal:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade; sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get install linux-ubuntu-modules-$(uname -r)
asoundconf set-default-card NVidia
sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel
sudo depmod -a

Open the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base file type:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

and add or modify the row with the snd-hda-intel options as below:

options snd-hda-intel model=3stack

or with lenovo pc

options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo

--------------- sound card
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToSetupSoundCards

--------------- ICH8
http://linuxtechie.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/getting-intel-ich8-family-rev-3-sound-card-to-work-in-gutsy/