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alsa-driver package

slmodemd process hogging access to /dev/snd devices -> Sound Preferences -> Output tab -> "Dummy Output: Stereo" - Codec + Mixer: Realtek ALC268 - Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 03) - sound not working on HP Pavilion dv6500 Notebook PC in Ubuntu 9.10 - using ALSA Driver version 1.0.21

Asked by Cade

I cannot be sure when exactly or what exactly happened that caused this. I was listening to music on Christmas just 3 days ago but today I have no sound. I go into the sound settings and there is no hardware and everything is mapped to a "Dummy Ouput" and its my only choice.

Any help would be appreciated. I am a recent convert from Windows so please bear with me. Below is my system info.

System information report, generated by Sysinfo: 12/27/2009 8:46:50 PM
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsysinfo

SYSTEM INFORMATION
 Running Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) release.
 GNOME: 2.28.1 (Ubuntu 2009-11-03)
 Kernel version: 2.6.31-16-generic (#53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 04:02:15 UTC 2009)
 GCC: 4.4.1 (x86_64-linux-gnu)
 Xorg: unknown (26 October 2009 05:19:56PM)
 Hostname: Ubuntu-HP
 Uptime: 0 days 0 h 7 min

CPU INFORMATION
 GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz
 Number of CPUs: 2
 CPU clock currently at 800.000 MHz with 2048 KB cache
 Numbering: family(6) model(15) stepping(13)
 Bogomips: 3990.27
 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm ida tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority

MEMORY INFORMATION
 Total memory: 2008 MB
 Total swap: 19139 MB

STORAGE INFORMATION
 SCSI device - scsi0
  Vendor: ATA
  Model: ST9320325AS
 SCSI device - scsi3
  Vendor: TSSTcorp
  Model: CD/DVDW TS-L632M

HARDWARE INFORMATION
MOTHERBOARD
 Host bridge
  Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
  Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30cc
 PCI bridge(s)
  Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) (prog-if 01)
  Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) (prog-if 01)
 USB controller(s)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
 ISA bridge
  Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
  Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30cc
 IDE interface
  Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
  Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30cc

GRAPHIC CARD
 VGA controller
  nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GS] (rev a1)
  Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30cc

SOUND CARD
 Multimedia controller
  Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
  Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30cc

NETWORK
 Network controller
  Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
  Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1100
 Ethernet controller
  Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
  Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30cc

NVIDIA GRAPHIC CARD INFORMATION
 Model name: GeForce 8400M GS
 Card Type: PCI-E 16x
 Video RAM: 512 MB
 GPU Frequency: 169 MHz
 Driver version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 185.18.36 Fri Aug 14 17:35:21 PDT 2009

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Please send us the full terminal output from step 3 and step 4 from this procedure:

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

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Cade (cade) said : 		#2

cade@Ubuntu-HP:~$ wget -O alsa-info.sh http://212.20.107.51/alsa-info.sh
--2009-12-28 11:44:26-- 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]
--2009-12-28 11:44:26-- 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: 26584 (26K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `alsa-info.sh'

100%[======================================>] 26,584 40.1K/s in 0.6s

2009-12-28 11:44:28 (40.1 KB/s) - `alsa-info.sh' saved [26584/26584]

cade@Ubuntu-HP:~$
cade@Ubuntu-HP:~$ bash alsa-info.sh --pastebin
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/sound, it will be ignored in a future release.
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.

WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/sound, it will be ignored in a future release.
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/1729802

Please inform the person helping you.

cade@Ubuntu-HP:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards; sudo rm /etc/asound.conf; sudo rm -r ~/.pulse ~/.asound* ;sudo rm ~/.pulse-cookie; sudo aptitude install paman gnome-alsamixer libasound2-plugins padevchooser libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio; aplay -l; sudo lshw -C sound; sudo lshw -short;ls -lart /dev/snd; cat /dev/sndstat; lspci -nn; sudo which alsactl; sudo fuser -v /dev/dsp /dev/snd/* ; dpkg -S bin/slmodemd; sudo /etc/init.d/sl-modem-daemon status; lsmod | grep snd
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xf8400000 irq 22
[sudo] password for cade:
rm: cannot remove `/etc/asound.conf': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `/home/cade/.asound*': No such file or directory
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:
  gnome-alsamixer libgconfmm-2.6-1c2{a} libglademm-2.4-1c2a{a}
  libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio padevchooser paman paprefs{a} pavucontrol{a}
  pavumeter{a} pulseaudio-module-zeroconf{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libsdl1.2debian-alsa{a}
0 packages upgraded, 10 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 719kB of archives. After unpacking 3,547kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe gnome-alsamixer 0.9.7~cvs.20060916.ds.1-2 [56.6kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main libgconfmm-2.6-1c2 2.24.0-2 [30.4kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main libglademm-2.4-1c2a 2.6.7-2 [22.1kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe pavumeter 0.9.3-1ubuntu1 [30.1kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe pavucontrol 0.9.8+git20090701-0ubuntu2 [121kB]
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe paman 0.9.4-1ubuntu2 [92.5kB]
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main pulseaudio-module-zeroconf 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4 [22.6kB]
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe paprefs 0.9.8+git20090825-0ubuntu2 [111kB]
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe padevchooser 0.9.3-2ubuntu4 [21.6kB]
Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio 1.2.13-4ubuntu4 [211kB]
Fetched 719kB in 3s (229kB/s)
dpkg: libsdl1.2debian-alsa: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 libsdl1.2debian depends on libsdl1.2debian-alsa (= 1.2.13-4ubuntu4) | libsdl1.2debian-all (= 1.2.13-4ubuntu4) | libsdl1.2debian-esd (= 1.2.13-4ubuntu4) | libsdl1.2debian-oss (= 1.2.13-4ubuntu4) | libsdl1.2debian-nas (= 1.2.13-4ubuntu4) | libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio (= 1.2.13-4ubuntu4); however:
  Package libsdl1.2debian-alsa is to be removed.
  Package libsdl1.2debian-all is not installed.
  Package libsdl1.2debian-esd is not installed.
  Package libsdl1.2debian-oss is not installed.
  Package libsdl1.2debian-nas is not installed.
  Package libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio is not installed.
(Reading database ... 194495 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libsdl1.2debian-alsa ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Selecting previously deselected package gnome-alsamixer.
(Reading database ... 194487 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gnome-alsamixer (from .../gnome-alsamixer_0.9.7~cvs.20060916.ds.1-2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libgconfmm-2.6-1c2.
Unpacking libgconfmm-2.6-1c2 (from .../libgconfmm-2.6-1c2_2.24.0-2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libglademm-2.4-1c2a.
Unpacking libglademm-2.4-1c2a (from .../libglademm-2.4-1c2a_2.6.7-2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package pavumeter.
Unpacking pavumeter (from .../pavumeter_0.9.3-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package pavucontrol.
Unpacking pavucontrol (from .../pavucontrol_0.9.8+git20090701-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package paman.
Unpacking paman (from .../paman_0.9.4-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package pulseaudio-module-zeroconf.
Unpacking pulseaudio-module-zeroconf (from .../pulseaudio-module-zeroconf_1%3a0.9.19-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package paprefs.
Unpacking paprefs (from .../paprefs_0.9.8+git20090825-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package padevchooser.
Unpacking padevchooser (from .../padevchooser_0.9.3-2ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio.
Unpacking libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio (from .../libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio_1.2.13-4ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Setting up gnome-alsamixer (0.9.7~cvs.20060916.ds.1-2) ...

Setting up libgconfmm-2.6-1c2 (2.24.0-2) ...

Setting up libglademm-2.4-1c2a (2.6.7-2) ...

Setting up pavumeter (0.9.3-1ubuntu1) ...

Setting up pavucontrol (0.9.8+git20090701-0ubuntu2) ...

Setting up paman (0.9.4-1ubuntu2) ...

Setting up pulseaudio-module-zeroconf (1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up paprefs (0.9.8+git20090825-0ubuntu2) ...

Setting up padevchooser (0.9.3-2ubuntu4) ...

Setting up libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio (1.2.13-4ubuntu4) ...

Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  *-multimedia
       description: Audio device
       product: 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1b
       bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
       version: 03
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
       resources: irq:22 memory:f8400000-f8403fff
H/W path Device Class Description
==========================================================
                                   system HP Pavilion dv6500 Notebook PC
/0 bus 30D2
/0/0 memory 100KiB BIOS
/0/4 processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7
/0/4/5 memory 64KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6 memory 2MiB L2 cache
/0/c memory 2GiB System Memory
/0/c/0 memory 1GiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MH
/0/c/1 memory 1GiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MH
/0/100 bridge Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory C
/0/100/1 bridge Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Expr
/0/100/1/0 display G86 [GeForce 8400M GS]
/0/100/1a bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Con
/0/100/1a.1 bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Con
/0/100/1a.7 bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Co
/0/100/1b multimedia 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Con
/0/100/1c bridge 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
/0/100/1c/0 wmaster0 network PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedr
/0/100/1c.1 bridge 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
/0/100/1c.5 bridge 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
/0/100/1c.5/0 eth0 network RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fas
/0/100/1d bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Con
/0/100/1d.1 bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Con
/0/100/1d.2 bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Con
/0/100/1d.7 bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Co
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1e/9 bus R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
/0/100/1e/9.1 generic R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host
/0/100/1e/9.2 generic R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adap
/0/100/1e/9.3 generic xD-Picture Card Controller
/0/100/1e/9.4 generic Illegal Vendor ID
/0/100/1f bridge 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Co
/0/100/1f.1 scsi3 storage 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE
/0/100/1f.1/0.0.0 /dev/cdrom disk CD/DVDW TS-L632M
/0/100/1f.1/0.0.0/0 /dev/cdrom disk
/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 320GB ST9320325AS
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 279GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 18GiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 18GiB Linux swap / Solaris partit
/0/100/1f.3 bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Contro
/1 vboxnet0 network Ethernet interface
total 0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 2009-12-28 11:42 timer
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 1 2009-12-28 11:42 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 22 2009-12-28 11:42 pcmC0D6p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 30 2009-12-28 11:42 pcmC0D6c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 16 2009-12-28 11:42 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 24 2009-12-28 11:42 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 2009-12-28 11:42 hwC0D1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 2009-12-28 11:42 hwC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 0 2009-12-28 11:42 controlC0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2009-12-28 11:42 by-path
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 240 2009-12-28 11:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 3840 2009-12-28 11:48 ..
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.21 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux Ubuntu-HP 2.6.31-16-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 04:02:15 UTC 2009 x86_64
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
HDA Intel at 0xf8400000 irq 22

Audio devices:
0: ALC268 Analog (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: Realtek ALC268
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port [8086:2a01] (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2841] (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 [8086:2849] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2815] (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller [8086:2850] (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2829] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:283e] (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GS] [10de:0427] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection [8086:4229] (rev 61)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 01)
09:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 05)
09:09.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 22)
09:09.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller [1180:0843] (rev 12)
09:09.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 12)
09:09.4 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev ff)
/usr/sbin/alsactl
                     USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: Slmodemd 1332 F.... slmodemd
/dev/snd/pcmC0D6c: Slmodemd 1332 F.... slmodemd
/dev/snd/pcmC0D6p: Slmodemd 1332 F.... slmodemd
sl-modem-daemon: /usr/sbin/slmodemd
Status of SmartLink modem daemon: slmodemd is running.
snd_hda_codec_si3054 6080 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 274020 1
snd_hda_intel 31296 3
snd_hda_codec 89920 3 snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 9448 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 44320 0
snd_mixer_oss 18944 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 92008 6 snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 3588 0
snd_seq_oss 33664 0
snd_seq_midi 8320 0
snd_rawmidi 27104 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8544 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 61216 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 25840 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 8532 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 76776 19 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_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 9088 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 11088 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
cade@Ubuntu-HP:~$

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Cade (cade) said : 		#3

My sound works now but it still says Dummy Output in the Sound Preferences dialog and there still is no hardware listed. I don't know if that is important.

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#4

Your output from step 4 shows the issue your pc is having:

/dev/snd/controlC0: Slmodemd 1332 F.... slmodemd

Your Si3054 Modem is hogging the /dev/snd devices, which is preventing your soundcard from working correctly.

Please try this solution:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+question/87927

which mentions this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/394500/comments/40

So you need to disable the Si3054 Modem (56k modem) via System/Administration/Hardware drivers

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