Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide

[walahala]

I looked around the Pulseaudio configuration and found nothing. I looked around and saw that someone had coded a Pulseaudio Device Chooser which did nothing for my system. Is there another configuration or program I can get to amplify?

[afrodeity]

Lord Raidon,

I followed your instructions, got this:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX Host bridge (r ev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at 50000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00001000-00001fff
Memory behind bridge: 40000000-410fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 20000000-200fffff

0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 42)
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DFE-530TX rev B
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11sudo modprobe snd-via82xx.
I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
Memory at 41100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Expansion ROM at 20100000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:14.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) ( prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at 2020 [size=16]

0000:00:14.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 2000 [size=32]

0000:00:14.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/ 2X (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0000
Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, stepping, medium devsel, latency 6 6, IRQ 11
Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
Memory at 41000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at 20000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

Then went to ALSA, but for the life of me, there doesn't seem to be an easy search utility on the site where I can input the above information to retrieve the right spec for the sounddriver. What must I do, no sound, and its not my computer, but an eager lass you desperately wants her machine to pump.

Afrodeity

[zapree]

When i uninstalled and reinstalled the alsa mixer it took out my desktop package even though I am using the most recent version of ubuntu hereon, just in it happens to people it would be useful to tell them that if the desktop messes up they can type "startx" and the desktop will be started cause this is the 2nd time this has happened (uninstall/reinstall then dead desktop) to me.

[Trueno22]

thanks for this

[JDorfler]

I have two cards listed when I look for my soundcard

Intel ICH5 and Intel ICH5 - IEC958

However, my pc only recognizes the Intel ICH5 when I either don't have the ATI drivers enabled or if I disable HyperThreading in BIOS. I'm pretty sure the IEC958 is for the optical out, which I don't use. I'd really like to be able to use sound while having both the ATI drivers installed and having HT enabled.

Anyone have a solution?

[ieBrazil]

Jvaldezjr - Thanks for the comments - you found an error in my instructions - it was supposed to read

sudo apt-get dpkg-reconfigure alsa-source

not alsa-base. In the alsa-project wiki, using a - and a _ are the same thing. They just appear in different areas.

ubuntu_demon - thanks for the comments and the sticky!!!

linish - glad I could help. Video gets a bit tricky and most of the work has been done. I might make a guide that links to all the relevant guides for ATI/NVIDIA/free drivers.

acorn22 - thanks for the comments. I tried to make it as new-user friendly as possible and I assume that the new-user has no previous knowledge whatsoever. This characteristic, IMO, makes the guide longer, but more thorough less ambiguous.

starmartyr - I think your sound card driver is th intel8x0.

sorry my imense ignorance, but what and where is a shell? then I'll be able to type...

you know, this is my first hours using Ubuntu 7.10.

really need help on the sound stuff. Sound and video...



ieBrazil

[JDorfler]

sorry my imense ignorance, but what and where is a shell? then I'll be able to type...

you know, this is my first hours using Ubuntu 7.10.

really need help on the sound stuff. Sound and video...



ieBrazil

Go to Applications/Accessories/Terminal

It'll look like the cmd from WinXP. Follow the directions there. gedit will open a simple text editor to edit scripts and other such that Ubuntu uses in it's boot sequence. After you make your changes make sure you hit save.

[siddharth_moghe]

i would prefer installing all the codecs at one and then amarok or vlc whatever suits the user.

this is what i have been doing since 6.04 and its been almost 5 releases till now and i havent faced a problem with this way. Interested folks can try it out for sure.

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt-get install w32codecs
sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-pitfdll

it comes in as a 32 mb download, the rest of the dependancies are installed while loading amarok

[jabeavers]

Hey all,

I posted a problem with my Delta 66 in Xubuntu64 in a new thread here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=924738

Should I have posted that in this thread?? I really need some help, please.

John

[DarkCloud2015]

Fellow Ubuntuers,

Brand new to Ubuntu, just installed a few days ago. After an epic battle with WLAN that I just got working, now my sound crapped out. I had got it to work, then for a few restarts I had to reconfigure alsamixer after each restart (sudo alsactl store 0 did nothing), and now sound is gone completely again. Alsamixer is not fixing it, volume level is at max and not muted. Computer is a Gateway 400SD4, sound is an ESS ES1988 Allegro.

Output of lspci -v:

02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 12)
	Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0401
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
	I/O ports at 3800 [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

And aplay -l:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCI [ESS Allegro PCI], device 0: Allegro [Allegro]
  Subdevices: 1/2
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1

Any thoughts?