Jaunty 9.04 Sound Solutions

**nooblot** · October 27th, 2009

this is where I start to hate Linux and am thinking of "going back"

sigh
don't have time to drop another x hours try to search out a fix

Browser sound coming out of laptop , not nice USB speaker

**vexorian** · October 27th, 2009

Didn't pulse audio device chooser work? It should allow you to pick what device to send the stream, or you could make your life easier and make a combined virtual device.

Reality is that your hatred is being misdirected, this would be far easier if hardware companies would actually decide on standards, instead they just design towards making it easy only for the users of a single platform.

**nooblot** · October 28th, 2009

Originally Posted by vexorian

Didn't pulse audio device chooser work?...

well I did not install pavucontrol because this "freaks" me out....ALL that is going to be gone ??!!

I thought "forgetit"

**vexorian** · October 28th, 2009

I checked pavucontrol's dependency list and it doesn't have conflicts with any package.

Are you sure you didn't have a failed package installation? Does that list appear when you try to install any other package?

**nooblot** · October 29th, 2009

Originally Posted by vexorian

Are you sure you didn't have a failed package installation? Does that list appear when you try to install any other package?

no I have no package failure
and that list is definitely "unique", never seen it before

**karimruan** · October 29th, 2009

Thanks for this, it got my mic working, and sound is flawless now! I have been searching the web for just this kind of how to! Thanks again!

**m0nstersnatch** · January 4th, 2010

Originally Posted by markbuntu

This seems to be a problem with some upgrades, not really common but not so rare either. What you should do is to reinstall alsa completely so any leftover configs can also be purged.

(1) Remove the ALSA packages. From a terminal:

Code:

sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils

(2) Reinstall the same packages

Code:

sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils

Packages gdm and ubuntu-desktop are also removed in this process if you are using Gnome. They need to be reinstalled:

Code:

sudo apt-get install gdm ubuntu-desktop

If you are using xubuntu this will also happen to you

Code:

sudo apt-get install gdm xubuntu-desktop

(3) Reboot.

If you needed to edit your /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base file you may not have to with the updated driver but if you still do the file in Jaunty is /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf. This is to conform to configuration file naming conventions.

Then follow the guide. let me know how this works out for you.

Nope, this did not help.
I had sound after the installation of Jaunty but weeks later after a reboot caused by an Amarok crash my sound diasappeared completly! I tested the hardware by using a 9.10 LiveCD and there was sound, so now i want my sound back on Jaunty!

Here the logs of alsa-info.sh on 9.04 w/o sound:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=54...364a3f94bc5047

using the liveCD from 9.10 i have sound again:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a5...ad0d40dad85858

Code:

$ sudo lspci -vvnn
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24d5] (rev 02)
   Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:02c7]
   Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
   Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
   Latency: 0
   Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 17
   Region 0: I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
   Region 1: I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]
   Region 2: Memory at e0000c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
   Region 3: Memory at e0000800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
   Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
      Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
      Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
   Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
   Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0

Code:

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0