Codec + Mixer: Realtek ALC883 - Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01) - sound not working in Ubuntu 9.10 beta - ALSA driver and library are different versions! -> aplay: device_list:223: no soundcards found...

What sound card are you using?

Its a realtek soundcard..,My computer has a PENTIUM D processor.

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

Please send us the output from step 3 and step 4.

here is the output of step 3 and 4

root@ranga-desktop:/home/ranga# wget -O alsa-info.sh http://212.20.107.51/alsa-info.sh
--2009-10-09 06:14:55-- http://212.20.107.51/alsa-info.sh
Connecting to 212.20.107.51:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-driver.git;a=blob_plain;f=utils/alsa-info.sh [following]
--2009-10-09 06:14:56-- http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-driver.git;a=blob_plain;f=utils/alsa-info.sh
Resolving git.alsa-project.org... 212.20.107.51
Reusing existing connection to 212.20.107.51:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/plain]
Saving to: `alsa-info.sh'

    [ <=> ] 26,584 10.5K/s in 2.5s

2009-10-09 06:15:09 (10.5 KB/s) - `alsa-info.sh' saved [26584]

root@ranga-desktop:/home/ranga# bash alsa-info.sh --pastebin
ALSA Information Script v 0.4.58
--------------------------------

This script visits the following commands/files to collect diagnostic
information about your ALSA installation and sound related hardware.

  dmesg
  lspci
  lsmod
  aplay
  amixer
  alsactl
  /proc/asound/
  /sys/class/sound/
  ~/.asoundrc (etc.)

See 'alsa-info.sh --help' for command line options.

/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1502: No soundcards found...
cat: /tmp/alsa-info.MCJOOEaAeq/alsactl.tmp: No such file or directory
Automatically upload ALSA information to pastebin? [y/N] : y
Uploading information to www.pastebin.ca ... Done!

Your ALSA information is located at http://pastebin.ca/1605690

Please inform the person helping you.

root@ranga-desktop:/home/ranga# cat /proc/asound/cards; sudo aptitude install gnome-alsamixer asoundconf-gtk alsa-utils flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound; asoundconf list; aplay -l; sudo lshw -C sound; ls -lart /dev/snd; cat /dev/sndstat; lspci -nn; sudo which alsactl; lsmod | grep snd
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfe9f8000 irq 16
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  asoundconf-gtk flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound gnome-alsamixer libglademm-2.4-1c2a{a} pavucontrol{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  binutils-static{u}
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 210kB of archives. After unpacking 324kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!

Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security.
You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that
this is what you want to do.

  asoundconf-gtk pavucontrol gnome-alsamixer flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound libglademm-2.4-1c2a

Do you want to ignore this warning and proceed anyway?
To continue, enter "Yes"; to abort, enter "No": y
Unrecognized input. Enter either "Yes" or "No".
Do you want to ignore this warning and proceed anyway?
To continue, enter "Yes"; to abort, enter "No": yes
Writing extended state information... Done
Err http://in.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe asoundconf-gtk 1.6-0ubuntu1
  404 Not Found [IP: 111.91.91.4 80]
Err http://in.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound 0.0.svn2431-3
  404 Not Found [IP: 111.91.91.4 80]
Err http://in.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe gnome-alsamixer 0.9.7~cvs.20060916.ds.1-2
  404 Not Found [IP: 111.91.91.4 80]
Err http://in.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main libglademm-2.4-1c2a 2.6.7-2
  404 Not Found [IP: 111.91.91.4 80]
Err http://in.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe pavucontrol 0.9.8+git20090701-0ubuntu2
  404 Not Found [IP: 111.91.91.4 80]
(Reading database ... 129213 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing binutils-static ...
E: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/a/asoundconf-gtk/asoundconf-gtk_1.6-0ubuntu1_all.deb: 404 Not Found [IP: 111.91.91.4 80]
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done

asoundconf: command not found
aplay: device_list:223: no soundcards found...
  *-multimedia
       description: Audio device
       product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1b
       bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:fe9f8000-fe9fbfff
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2009-10-09 05:59 by-path
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 2009-10-09 05:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4380 2009-10-09 06:27 ..
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.18rc3 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux ranga-desktop 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
HDA Intel at 0xfe9f8000 irq 16

Audio devices:
0: ALC883 Analog (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
31: system timer

Mixers:
0: Realtek ALC883
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82946GZ/PL/GL Memory Controller Hub [8086:2970] (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82946GZ/GL Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2972] (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b8] (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller [8086:27df] (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c0] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
01:00.0 Communication controller [0780]: Agere Systems Lucent V.92 Data/Fax Modem [11c1:0620]
01:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet [10ec:8167] (rev 10)
/sbin/alsactl
snd_hda_intel 435636 0
snd_pcm_oss 46336 0
snd_mixer_oss 22656 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 82948 2 snd_hda_intel,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 9 snd_hda_intel,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_hda_intel,snd_pcm
root@ranga-desktop:/home/ranga#

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.