SB450 sound not working

Try to install source alsa driver from the alsa project, to do it on shell edit this comand:

$: mkdir src && cd src

$: mkdir alsa && cd alsa

$: sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

$: wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3.tar.bz2

$: tar -xvjf alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3.tar.bz2

$: cd alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3.tar.bz2

$: sudo ./configure --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r) --with-cards=<enter driver name here e.g. via82xx> --with-oss=yes

$: sudo make

$: sudo make install

Restart the system and let me know, thanks

Massimo

I installed the updated drivers per your instructions. Now the sound
device is not found by the system.

Leonard

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 12:37 +0000, Massimo Forti wrote:
> Question #5526 on alsa-driver in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+question/5526
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Massimo Forti proposed the following answer:
> Try to install source alsa driver from the alsa project, to do it on
> shell edit this comand:
>
> $: mkdir src && cd src
>
> $: mkdir alsa && cd alsa
>
> $: sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
>
> $: wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-
> driver-1.0.14rc3.tar.bz2
>
> $: tar -xvjf alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3.tar.bz2
>
> $: cd alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3.tar.bz2
>
> $: sudo ./configure --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)
> --with-cards=<enter driver name here e.g. via82xx> --with-oss=yes
>
> $: sudo make
>
> $: sudo make install
>
> Restart the system and let me know, thanks

Since I have the same problem I was following the same steps and when I reach > $: cd alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3.tar.bz2 I get this message: bash: cd: alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3.tar.bz2: Not a directory

I followed all the previous steps rigorously!

so when i try to do the first instructions before i even get started ijust copy and paist then enter right? then it gives me a message saying "greg@ubuntu:~$ mkdir src && cd src
mkdir: cannot create directory `src': File exists"
 then i try and do the second instructions
 and it says "greg@ubuntu:~$ $: mkdir src && cd src
bash: $:: command not found " and what the heck does that mean

If you're copy-pasting the commands that Massimo Forti provided, don't include the $ symbol at the start of each line. That's supposed to represent the shell prompt. In a standard bash shell (which is what you'll be using on a default installation), a prompt of '$' at the terminal (or konsole, or whatever) means that you're currently running as a standard user with no special privileges. If you were to change to the root user, that prompt would become '#' (although you should use preface any command that requires root privs with the word "sudo", rather than logging in as root).

It's convention to include the $ when pasting code, to show that it should be run as a standard user, but there's no need to type the $ when reproducing the code at your own machine.