No Sound - Jaunty - Dell Inspiron 1440

[count_alucard]

Hi, everyone..

I'm a noob in Ubuntu.. and i just bought Dell Inspiron 1440 without any OS.. Installed Jaunty as my OS.. but there's no sound available..

here's the details of my machine audio device n codec..

1. lspci - v | less (just took the Audio Controller part)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 02cf
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
Memory at f6afc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

2. lshw -c multimedia

*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: 82801I (ICH9 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: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 module=snd_hda_intel

3. aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

4. cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec

Codec: IDT 92HD81B1X5

I've tried the "options snd-hda-intel model=" based on all the configurations for snd-hda-intel in ALSA-Configuration.txt but still.. there's no sound for my machine..

All volume controls slider are being set to 100%, no sounds available..

Can somebody here help me on how to troubleshoot this? Thanks in advance..
Really appreciate it if someone here can help me..

hey, guys.. i've found a solution.. i've updated my alsa driver, lib n utils.. (from 1.0.18rc3 to 1.0.20) n now i'm rolling!

[samuel.faith]

My problem is a lil bit different. I have sound, but only when I plug-in external speaker. Laptop speaker only plays the alert sounds like login sounds, but not music or anything else. Using external speakers, it works just fine.

Inspiron 1440, same config as above. Jaunty 9.04

[Pcniatic]

Thanks count_alucard, I did update to alsa runing a modified script available here (I just change the alsa version to 1.0.20) and it did work great, except for one detail, the sound comes out very low. Do you have the same issue?

EDIT: Everything is fine now. I just found a mixer for the speaker that was low on volume control.

[johnjoy]

I also have Inspiron 1440 which came pre installed with Vista. I loaded Jaunty, and sound works on and off (sound works in some reboots). I have the same config as alu_card.
Alu_card, can you clarify how you updated lib n utils?
Please help me through steps. I'm quite new to Ubuntu.

Thanks in advance

[vedek]

I also have Inspiron 1440 which came pre installed with Vista. I loaded Jaunty, and sound works on and off (sound works in some reboots). I have the same config as alu_card.
Alu_card, can you clarify how you updated lib n utils?
Please help me through steps. I'm quite new to Ubuntu.

Thanks in advance

hi mate you might want to create anew thread for your problem

[count_alucard]

I also have Inspiron 1440 which came pre installed with Vista. I loaded Jaunty, and sound works on and off (sound works in some reboots). I have the same config as alu_card.
Alu_card, can you clarify how you updated lib n utils?
Please help me through steps. I'm quite new to Ubuntu.

Thanks in advance

hi, there.. u can try this guide >> ALSA GUIDE

CHEERS!

[johnjoy]

Thanks for the help, but it didn't work

I will give the output

johnjoy@johnjoy-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get -y install build-essential ncurses-dev gettext xmlto
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
build-essential set to manually installed.
Note, selecting libncurses5-dev instead of ncurses-dev
libncurses5-dev is already the newest version.
gettext is already the newest version.
gettext set to manually installed.
xmlto is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (2.6) ...

These fonts were provided by Microsoft "in the interest of cross-
platform compatibility". This is no longer the case, but they are
still available from third parties.

You are free to download these fonts and use them for your own use,
but you may not redistribute them in modified form, including changes
to the file name or packaging format.

--2009-08-19 22:19:01-- http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/so...s/andale32.exe
Resolving lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in'
--2009-08-19 22:19:01-- http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc...s/andale32.exe
Resolving lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in'
--2009-08-19 22:19:01-- http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/source...s/andale32.exe
Resolving lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in'
--2009-08-19 22:19:01-- http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sou...s/andale32.exe
Resolving lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in'
--2009-08-19 22:19:01-- http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sour...s/andale32.exe
Resolving lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in'
--2009-08-19 22:19:01-- http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc...s/andale32.exe
Resolving lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in'
--2009-08-19 22:19:01-- http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc...s/andale32.exe
Resolving lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in'
--2009-08-19 22:19:01-- http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/...s/andale32.exe
Resolving lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in'
--2009-08-19 22:19:01-- http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc...s/andale32.exe
Resolving lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in'
--2009-08-19 22:19:01-- http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sour...s/andale32.exe
Resolving lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in'
--2009-08-19 22:19:01-- http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc...s/andale32.exe
Resolving lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in'
--2009-08-19 22:19:01-- http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/s...s/andale32.exe
Resolving lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in'
--2009-08-19 22:19:01-- http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sou...s/andale32.exe
Resolving lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `lantic@netmon.iitb.ac.in'
andale32.exe: No such file or directory

All done, errors in processing 1 file(s)
dpkg: error processing ttf-mscorefonts-installer (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
ttf-mscorefonts-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


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I am inside an institute and it has proxy. Can you tell me how to bypass this proxy, and download alsa updates.
I will be thankfull for any help.

John

[Pcniatic]

You are having problems installing fonts from Microsoft, but their are not necessary for this matter.
Continue with the other steps from the guide.

[johnjoy]

I tried to do it, but it is not working, when I tried to install alsa utils, it showed an error. Please help me

johnjoy@johnjoy-laptop:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.20$ sudo make
Making all in include
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.20/include'
make all-am
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.20/include'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.20/include'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.20/include'
Making all in alsactl
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.20/alsactl'
Making all in init
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.20/alsactl/init'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.20/alsactl/init'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.20/alsactl'
xmlto man alsactl_init.xml
/bin/bash: xmlto: command not found
make[2]: *** [alsactl_init.7] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.20/alsactl'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.20/alsactl'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

What should I do?

[johnjoy]

I have noticed one thing

lspci -v|less


Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 02cf
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7
Memory at f6afc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

It doesn't list a Kernel Driver in Use (like in Count_Alucard) Why so? My sound works well in other operating systems.