Sound not working in Ubuntu 9.04

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

Err, this is probably a bit basic but i often find these solve the problem if it's become really tough, as yours has.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Tried all this, no success :(

Hi Bussterz,

Would you mind to give us more specific about type of your Sound Card by running this command from terminal (Application > Accessories > Terminal)?
$ lspci -vv | grep Audio

-Luky-

I wasn't really expecting much success with that guide i posted. It's mostly a kind of "check the little plug is in the green socket" type approach. I was just hoping to get lucky there ;)

Hi Luky,

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

Kind Regards

Hmmm.. not sure It will help you, but you can give it a try.

$ sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/sound

Add this line at the end of file
options snd-intel8x0 ac97_quirk=1 buggy_irq=1 enable=1 index=0

Save it then reboot your Ubuntu..

-Luky-

That file was empty for me or not even created. But i tried adding it anyway and rebooting but nothing seems to have changed.

Cheers

Did you try:
sudo modprobe snd_intel8x0

Quote 'Troubleshooting':
If there is still no sound, installation isn't autodetecting your card.

Test in a terminal
e.g.
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav

Don't worry in Hardy the file
/etc/modprobe.d/sound
doesn't exist also

It's
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

Other options to add at the end e.g.:
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack enable=yes
options snd-hda-intel model=auto position_fix=1 enable=yes

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt#983

After edit restart computer or:
sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound restart

In case backup config:
sudo cp /var/lib/alsa/asound.state /var/lib/alsa/asound.state.bak

This is so frustrating!

ran 'sudo modprobe snd_intel8x0'. Nothing really happened. No terminal output, should there have been?

found my alsa-base.conf added the lines given, rebooted and restarted alsa. Although my alsa restart seems to be:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
 * Shutting down ALSA... [ OK ]
 * Setting up ALSA... [ OK ]

Still not happening for me :(

Any other ideas? Greatly appreciate your help.

Hmm.. this is weird. How about to update your ubuntu release with the new kernel.
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If you're still having that problems, would you mind to give the output of this command:
$ lsmod | grep snd

Cheers...
-Luky-

Updated my ubuntu to no avail. Still no sound.

david@Dave-Ubuntu:~$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0 37532 3
snd_ac97_codec 112292 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 9856 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 46336 0
snd_mixer_oss 22656 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 82948 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 10756 0
snd_seq_oss 37760 0
snd_seq_midi 14336 0
snd_rawmidi 29696 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 15104 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 56880 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 29704 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14988 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 62628 16 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 15200 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 16904 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

Cheers,
David

Ok i was fiddling about and i got wierd sound now.

I was in my 'Volume Control', where all the little volume things are for 'Master' 'PCM' 'Line In' and things like that. I go to the 'Switches' tab and tick the 'Exchange Front/Surround'

Now i've got really muffled sound seems really basey, but nothing like how it should be.

Does that help at all? :(

Cheers,
David

I also have 'Mix' and 'External Amplifier' activated.
You may start in a terminal:
alsamixer

At the very end to the right you'll find External Amplifier.
While open you can try different settings and test the sound.

Settings in system -> preferences -> sound and in volume-control should be consistent.
You may set everything to alsa or trial and error with pulse-audio.

I think I've fiddled around and got some OK sound now. Thanks for all your help!

Wow, fantastic. Nicely done :))
Welcome to linux Bussterz, especially the Ubuntu part of that :)
Regards to all from
Tom :)

uninstall the gstremear codecs and re install it from the add or remove
programs.

BEST OF LUCK

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Bussterz <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Question #67246 on alsa-driver in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+question/67246
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> Bussterz is still having a problem:
> Updated my ubuntu to no avail. Still no sound.
>
> david@Dave-Ubuntu:~$ lsmod | grep snd
> snd_intel8x0 37532 3
> snd_ac97_codec 112292 1 snd_intel8x0
> ac97_bus 9856 1 snd_ac97_codec
> snd_pcm_oss 46336 0
> snd_mixer_oss 22656 1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm 82948 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_seq_dummy 10756 0
> snd_seq_oss 37760 0
> snd_seq_midi 14336 0
> snd_rawmidi 29696 1 snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq_midi_event 15104 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq 56880 6
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_timer 29704 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
> snd_seq_device 14988 5
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
> snd 62628 16
> snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
> soundcore 15200 1 snd
> snd_page_alloc 16904 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
>
> Cheers,
> David
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I have the problem too a little history....

I had the problem briefly in 8.10 after doing some (add applications) then i reinstalled 8.10 and it started working again.

now after updating to 9.04 I do not know when the sound stopped working or if it worked at all been a very busy week but I decided time to relax and listen to some music and as you know no sound.

I checked the sound settings turned up all the volumes to no avail

the device selected in volume control is via 8237 (alsa Mixer)

I included the output from terminal command -w | grep audio listed below.

Any help greatly appreciated.

lspci -vv | grep Audio
00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23418 Single-Chip MPEG-2 Encoder with Integrated Analog Video/Broadcast Audio Decoder
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
 Kernel driver in use: VIA 82xx Audio

Seandes
Please re-post but this time scroll down to the bottom of the list of similar questions in order to post your own question
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+addquestion

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Thanks for the advice given in this thread.

Stricktly on a nice-to-know-basis I might ad the following that worked for me. First info of my system: HP dv3550 13,3" laptop:
$ uname -a
Linux 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
$ sudo lspci -vv|grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

I followed these instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/commmunity/SoundTroubleshooting
starting from " Is ALSA using the correct model". These instructions led me to modify /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, I just added following line in the end of this file:

options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4 position_fix=1 enable=yes

hp-m4 is for HP dv laptops. don't know if position fix etc. are absolutely necessary, though.
after few reboots my sounds now work ;)

   timo

there is one m too many in the above link, sorry.

Tom I am attempting to correct audio via pulseaudio but i get this error

andale32.exe: library not compiled to support large files.
Extracting cabinet: andale32.exe
  extracting fontinst.inf
  extracting andale.inf
  extracting fontinst.exe
  extracting AndaleMo.TTF
  extracting ADVPACK.DLL
  extracting W95INF32.DLL
  extracting W95INF16.DLL

All done, no errors.
arialb32.exe: no valid cabinets found

All done, errors in processing 1 file(s)
dpkg: error processing msttcorefonts (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 msttcorefonts
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
admini@ubuntu:~$

when I run this command

sudo apt-get install asoundconf-gtk alsa-oss libasound2 libasound2-plugins
padevchooser gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio ubuntu-restricted-extras

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https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+addquestion

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I had same issue after upgrade. Not sure what happened but all I did to repair it was:

scorso@draft:~ (01:25 PM)$ alsactl init
Unknown hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Analog Devices AD1981" "HDA:11d41981,17aa2060,00100200" "" ""
Hardware is initialized using a guess method
scorso@draft:~ (01:26 PM)$

And sound started working again.

i repaired it by removing ubuntu and installing v9 instead of upgrading

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> I had same issue after upgrade. Not sure what happened but all I did to
> repair it was:
>
> scorso@draft:~ (01:25 PM)$ alsactl init
> Unknown hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Analog Devices AD1981"
> "HDA:11d41981,17aa2060,00100200" "" ""
> Hardware is initialized using a guess method
> scorso@draft:~ (01:26 PM)$
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> And sound started working again.
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Hi :)

Just wondered if you have solved this problem yet or are you still having troubles? If you still need help then try re-posting the question in here when you are ready to try working through any suggestions
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

or else post the question on a more general linux forum such as
http://www.linuxquestions.org

I hope all is going well
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

I have no sound in firefox. Please help.

snd_hda_codec_si3054 12928 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 199556 1
snd_hda_intel 33864 1
snd_hda_codec 77568 3 snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 15236 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 45984 0
snd_mixer_oss 22656 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 82820 4 snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 10884 0
snd_seq_oss 39296 0
snd_seq_midi 14240 0
snd_rawmidi 29472 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 15232 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 57456 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 29320 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 15372 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 66596 16 snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 15200 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 17032 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

Please post this as a new question. Launchpad doesn't have a mechanism for responding to posts in old questions and can only deal with new questions as they arise.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
You can always link back to the url for this question
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+question/67246

it would be helpful if you have already worked through
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting
&
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems
so that you can answer questions answerers might have quickly but please try to keep your initial question brief

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

I can not get this fixed.

Please refer http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=889b904fbcd583ef04cbef597953b230d6395949

and provide support.

Geeth

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