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Ubuntu says no sound card installed

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I just installed Ubuntu linux on my older 300MHz Dell PC. The machine has a Soundblaster AWE64 soundcard, but linux hasn't recognized it. How can I enable the sound capabilities of my computer? The card was working fine under WinXP, but "disappeared" when I switched to Linux. Thanks!
Speedoo

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Frode Egeland (egeland) said : 		#1

Does your PC also have 'on-board' sound?
I noticed that my Kubuntu install favored the on-board over the installed SoundBlaster card.
There should be a way to switch between soundcards, but I use KDE, so don't know where it would be in GNOME...

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anoopalias01 (anoopalias01-gmail) said : 		#2

Sound in linux is managed by the ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) sub-system .http://www.alsa-project.org/
Check wheter your sound card is supported and has a driver
You can do a search in google.com/linux for your soundcard

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Mike Perry (mike.perry) said : 		#3

The command "lspci" will give you some information about what is attached to the pcibus. I would agree with FrodeEgelan. If you have onboard that might be favored. Do you have anything listened in gnome-sound-properties?

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Mike Perry (mike.perry) said : 		#4

This might help also.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems

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craiger (craig2075) said : 		#5

im new to ubuntu and trying to config sound card. im using an ati all in wonder video card and not sure about sound card on an old gateway 5oo mhz computer
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