Alsa not working - help!

[simpsonsfreak]

Hi everyone,
Here's my problem:
My sound was working fine until just now. When I try to run alsamixer from the terminal, it shows this:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

The output for sudo alsa force-reload is:
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/hayden/.gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/hayden/.gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded).
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: (none to reload).

And the results of sudo lshw -C sound are:
*-multimedia UNCLAIMED
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: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0

I've tried a few things, but thus far none of them have worked. As I said, it was after I tried to do something as it was previously working.

Thanks to anyone who can help me in any way, I really appreciate it...

[Casper Hansen]

Can you use Pulse Audio?

[nadalizadeh]

list your current kernel modules by "lsmod" and see which one
is related to your sound card and "rmmod" it. then reload
with "modprobe"
Also close any applications that is probable to use sound feature.
rebooting might help too !

[simpsonsfreak]

Can you use Pulse Audio?

I'm not sure it works with my card as I've had (unrelated) problems before and alsa has been working until just recently.

[simpsonsfreak]

My problem has now been resolved thanks to iFvwm in the #ubuntu IRC channel - all I had to do was install the linux-ubuntu-modules package for my kernel!:popcorn:

[Robbyx]

My problem has now been resolved thanks to iFvwm in the #ubuntu IRC channel - all I had to do was install the linux-ubuntu-modules package for my kernel!

How did you do that?
Can it be done through synaptic?

Robin