No sound on Laptop

**ubunterooster** · September 15th, 2010

I took the hard drive out of my desktop and stuck it into my VAIO laptop. The only problem I have is an inability to get my sound working.

lspci (see both red text areas in this lspci area for sound card info)

Code:

ubunterooser@ubunterooser-server:~$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge Alternate
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
    Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Sony Corporation Device 9602
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
    I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
    Memory behind bridge: f4100000-f42fffff
    Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000efffffff
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel modules: shpchp

00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
    I/O behind bridge: 00006000-00009fff
    Memory behind bridge: f3100000-f40fffff
    Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0000000-00000000f0ffffff
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
    Kernel modules: shpchp

00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3)
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=09, subordinate=09, sec-latency=0
    Memory behind bridge: f3000000-f30fffff
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
    Kernel modules: shpchp

00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (prog-if 01)
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 27
    I/O ports at b038 [size=8]
    I/O ports at b04c [size=4]
    I/O ports at b030 [size=8]
    I/O ports at b048 [size=4]
    I/O ports at b010 [size=16]
    Memory at f4308000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: ahci
    Kernel modules: ahci

00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller (prog-if 10)
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
    Memory at f4307000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller (prog-if 20)
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
    Memory at f4308600 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller (prog-if 10)
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
    Memory at f4306000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller (prog-if 20)
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
    Memory at f4308500 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 41)
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
    Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
    Kernel modules: i2c-piix4

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller (rev 40) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
    I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
    I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
    I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
    I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
    I/O ports at b000 [size=16]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp
    Kernel modules: pata_atiixp

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
    Memory at f4300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
    Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller (rev 40)
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40) (prog-if 01)
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=0a, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=64

00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller (prog-if 10)
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
    Memory at f4305000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:15.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 43a0
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=0b, subordinate=10, sec-latency=0
    I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00005fff
    Memory behind bridge: f2000000-f2ffffff
    Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f1000000-00000000f1ffffff
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
    Kernel modules: shpchp

00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller (prog-if 10)
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
    Memory at f4304000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller (prog-if 20)
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
    Memory at f4308400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration
    Flags: fast devsel
    Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map
    Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller
    Flags: fast devsel
    Kernel modules: amd64_edac_mod

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
    Flags: fast devsel
    Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control
    Flags: fast devsel

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
    Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
    Memory at f4200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
    Memory at f4100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci
    Kernel modules: fglrx, radeon

01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4200]
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29
    Memory at f4210000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
    Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9077
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
    I/O ports at 6000 [size=256]
    Memory at f0004000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: r8169
    Kernel modules: r8169

09:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e017
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
    Memory at f3000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: ath9k
    Kernel modules: ath9k

ubunterooser@ubunterooser-server:~$

The one red part in this area shows more sound card info.

Code:

ubunterooser@ubunterooser-server:~$ lshw
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
ubunterooser-server       
    description: Computer
    width: 64 bits
    capabilities: vsyscall64 vsyscall32
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       physical id: 0
     *-memory
          description: System memory
          physical id: 0
          size: 3706MiB
     *-cpu
          product: AMD Athlon(tm) II P320 Dual-Core Processor
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 1
          bus info: cpu@0
          size: 800MHz
          capacity: 800MHz
          width: 64 bits
          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt nodeid_msr cpufreq
     *-pci:0
          description: Host bridge
          product: RS780 Host Bridge Alternate
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz
        *-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge
             product: Sony Corporation
             vendor: Sony Corporation
             physical id: 1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
             resources: ioport:a000(size=4096) memory:f4100000-f42fffff ioport:e0000000(size=268435456)
           *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
                vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
                physical id: 5
                bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
                version: 00
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0
                resources: irq:30 memory:e0000000-efffffff(prefetchable) ioport:a000(size=256) memory:f4200000-f420ffff memory:f4100000-f41fffff
           *-multimedia
                description: Audio device
                product: RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4200]
                vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
                physical id: 5.1
                bus info: pci@0000:01:05.1
                version: 00
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
                resources: irq:29 memory:f4210000-f4213fff
        *-pci:1
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
             physical id: 4
             bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:24 ioport:6000(size=16384) memory:f3100000-f40fffff ioport:f0000000(size=16777216)
           *-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
                logical name: eth1
                version: 06
                serial: 54:42:49:2b:1e:e8
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
                configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI latency=0 multicast=yes
                resources: irq:28 ioport:6000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff(prefetchable) memory:f0000000-f0003fff(prefetchable)
        *-pci:2
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
             physical id: 7
             bus info: pci@0000:00:07.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:25 memory:f3000000-f30fffff
           *-network
                description: Wireless interface
                product: AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
                vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
                logical name: wlan0
                version: 01
                serial: 78:dd:08:e0:5f:0b
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
                configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k ip=192.168.1.111 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
                resources: irq:19 memory:f3000000-f300ffff
        *-storage
             description: SATA controller
             product: SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
             vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
             physical id: 11
             bus info: pci@0000:00:11.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: storage bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ahci latency=64
             resources: irq:27 ioport:b038(size=8) ioport:b04c(size=4) ioport:b030(size=8) ioport:b048(size=4) ioport:b010(size=16) memory:f4308000-f43083ff
        *-usb:0
             description: USB Controller
             product: SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
             vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
             physical id: 12
             bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=64
             resources: irq:18 memory:f4307000-f4307fff
        *-usb:1
             description: USB Controller
             product: SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
             vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
             physical id: 12.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:12.2
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=64
             resources: irq:17 memory:f4308600-f43086ff
        *-usb:2
             description: USB Controller
             product: SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
             vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
             physical id: 13
             bus info: pci@0000:00:13.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=64
             resources: irq:18 memory:f4306000-f4306fff
        *-usb:3
             description: USB Controller
             product: SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
             vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
             physical id: 13.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:13.2
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=64
             resources: irq:17 memory:f4308500-f43085ff
        *-serial
             description: SMBus
             product: SBx00 SMBus Controller
             vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
             physical id: 14
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
             version: 41
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             configuration: driver=piix4_smbus latency=0
             resources: irq:0
        *-ide
             description: IDE interface
             product: SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
             vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
             physical id: 14.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.1
             version: 40
             width: 32 bits

**lidex** · September 17th, 2010

Hmm. Try re-installing your kernel and kernel header packages. Next this: Use the alsa-info-script to provide detailed information.
Run this command in a terminal:

Code:

wget http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh -O alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh

Enter your user password when prompted. Choose the upload option and provide a link for the output.

**ubunterooster** · September 17th, 2010

I was really busy and forgot to mention I fixed this by upgrading to 10.10 and compiling ALSA that way.

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