sound card detected but no sound

Go to Menu:
System--->Preferences--->Sounds

change to other options on selection boxes, and press "Test",
if work, set all selection boxes to this option,
if dont work, try other option, one of them should work fine.

i have tried what you suggested orignally all options were set to auto detect when i press test i get nothing at all i have tried changing it to all of them and every time i change it and i get an error message that says: audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Could not open audio device for playback does this meen audio hardware is detected but not installed properly?i have not installed any drivers at the min every thing has worked on auto detect other than this i have a dell dimension e520 if thats helps at all thanks

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> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 22:24:42 +0000
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> Your question #60460 on Ubuntu changed:
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> Status: Open => Answered
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> juancarlospaco proposed the following answer:
> Go to Menu:
> System--->Preferences--->Sounds
>
> change to other options on selection boxes, and press "Test",
> if work, set all selection boxes to this option,
> if dont work, try other option, one of them should work fine.
>
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please, run on Terminal :

lspci | grep udio ; lshw | grep udio ; lsmod | grep ound ; uname -a ; lsb_release --all

Sorry i press " add anwer ", and paste here the results.

jermaine@jermaine-desktop:~$ lspci | grep udio ; lshw | grep udio ; lsmod | grep ound ; uname -a ;
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
             description: Audio device
             product: 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
soundcore 15328 2 snd
Linux jermaine-desktop 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
jermaine@jermaine-desktop:~$ lsb_release --all

thats the whole terminal script copy and pasted does that tell u anything more?

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> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 22:43:01 +0000
>
> Your question #60460 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/60460
>
> juancarlospaco proposed the following answer:
> Sorry i press " add anwer ", and paste here the results.
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jermaine@jermaine-desktop:~$ lspci | grep udio ; lshw | grep udio ; lsmod | grep ound ; uname -a ;
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
             description: Audio device
             product: 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
soundcore 15328 2 snd
Linux jermaine-desktop 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
jermaine@jermaine-desktop:~$ lsb_release --all

any1 can help thnx?

Here the already answered question https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver

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

Hope this helps

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