Clean Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit, No sound.

**billdotson** · February 18th, 2011

Output of sudo lshw -c sound:

Code:

*-multimedia            
       description: Audio device
       product: GF104 High Definition Audio Controller
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 0.1
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
       version: a1
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
       resources: irq:17 memory:f7dfc000-f7dfffff
  *-multimedia
       description: Multimedia audio controller
       product: SB0400 Audigy2 Value
       vendor: Creative Labs
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:05:02.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=EMU10K1_Audigy latency=64 maxlatency=20 mingnt=2
       resources: irq:23 ioport:ec00(size=64)

I had 9.04 just a few weeks ago, upgraded to 9.10 and the sound was gone. It was fixed easily by installing GNOMEmixer. I tried upgrading to 10.04, didn't work, so I did a complete reinstall of 10.10. No sound at all, through either device (HDMI audio or 5.1 speakers).

I love Ubuntu and all, so I hate to complain, but I thought this sort of thing was over as far back as 9.04, which I can't remember having any driver issues, sound issues, etc. Anyway, what is the next step?

**billdotson** · February 19th, 2011

Nothing at all eh?

**billdotson** · February 19th, 2011

Seriously, nobody has any idea? This is getting really annoying having no sound.

**jsprz8382** · February 19th, 2011

I have this issue too!
Same/Similar hardware also help us!

**gruffyddd** · February 20th, 2011

My soundcard stopped working about 2 weeks ago - the sound has gone very quiet and fuzzy.

It may be because of this bug here. Try rebooting into kernel 2.6.32-27-generic instead of 2.6.32-28-generic - I will be trying the same thing once I figure out how to do it.

**trey31357** · February 20th, 2011

I had the same problem - here's how I fixed it.

Install alsamixer:

sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer

Then open GNOME ALSA Mixer from Applications -> Sound & Video -> GNOME ALSA Mixer

Choose the tab: “SigmaTel…”

Turn on “Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack”

That should do the trick.

**billdotson** · February 21st, 2011

Hey Trey, that worked, thank you. I remember doing that to fix the sound after U upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10, but the thing I forgot to do was to check the Output Jack box. The sound works now for my Soundblaster Audigy 4. However, it would still be nice if the sound would work for the GF104 HDMI audio (nVidia GTX 460). If I can't figure that out though, at least I have sound from something.