Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide

[jcmhunting]

I tried to follow the step to get drivers installed and got an error message. Any help would be appreciated. This is the error. Thanks in advance for the help.

┌───────────────────┤ module-assistant, log file viewer ├────────────────────┐
│ │
│ for i in control postinst postrm ; do \
│ if [ -f debian/$i.orig ]; then \
│ mv -f debian/$i.orig debian/$i ; \
│ fi ; \
│ done
│ rm -f control-munge
│ make mrproper
│ make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver'
│ rm -f .depend *.o snd.map*
│ rm -f modules/*.o modules/*.ko
│ make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/include'
│ make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/include'
│ make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver'
│ rm -f configure-stamp
│ rm -f build-stamp

[matt_symes]

Hi

Hi, I've read through the first page of the topic and done the steps.
Here's where I get a problem, after successfully finding my alsa driver with the modprobe snd- ... when I try to add the name in the file /ect/modules, it simply creates a new empty file, and so I'm at a loss.

I recently installed an update, which seems to be the cause of my no longer having any sound.

(For info, my sound card is a Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy SE)

Try

/etc/modules

and not

/ect/modules

This has come up a number of times. Is this some unusual contraction of Et cetera which is what i thought /etc stood for ?

Kind regards

[varelov]

If it is of any help to anybody:
- if you had sound after initial Ubuntu installation and installed a suggested update and lost sound, you might want to boot into the pre- update kernel version, provided that the update you installed causes Ubuntu to create a backup version of the kernel (like a security update, for example).
After a security update on my Ubuntu machine, my USB speakers were no longer recognized. But after booting into a previous version of the kernel (the one before updates), those speakers were recognized. After another update from there, same speakers were suddenly recognized in the latest kernel version as well.

[ESDEEM]

thanks a lot......it gave my sounds back....
contented !

[nightfever]

Allright, here's the problem:
I have an e-mu 1212m (emu10k1) soundcard (which is supported), but Ubuntu only detects my onboard card (which is also enabled)

lspci -v gives the following output:

03:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value
	Subsystem: Creative Labs EMU1010 Digital Audio System [MAEM8960]
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 19
	I/O ports at a400 [size=64]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel modules: snd-emu10k1

and then:

bogdan@bogdan-945PL-S3P:~$ sudo modprobe snd-emu10k1
bogdan@bogdan-945PL-S3P:~$

And still nothing.

EDIT: tried the hard way:
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) module-assistant alsa-source
sudo dpkg-reconfigure alsa-source
sudo module-assistant a-i alsa-source

And then I got an error and a huge log file, the last error being:

In file included from include/linux/pci.h:58:0,                             
 │                  from /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/memalloc.inc:13,   
 │                  from /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/memalloc.c:1:      
 │ /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/include/linux/pci_ids.h:2:58: fatal error:     
 │ @CONFIG_SND_KERNELSRC@/include/linux/pci_ids.h: No such file or directory   
 │ compilation terminated.                                                     
 │ make[5]: *** [/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/memalloc.o] Error 1        
 │ make[4]: *** [/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore] Error 2                   
 │ make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver] Error 2                 
 │ make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic'        
 │ make[2]: *** [compile] Error 2                                              
 │ make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver'                   
 │ make[1]: *** [build-stamp] Error 2                                          
 │ make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver'                   
 │ make: *** [kdist_image] Error 2

[scifiart]

Hello everyone.
I got a problem with codecs. So I installed ubuntu 10.10, made upgrade. Now I have sound coming out my sound card, but sound is not comin through speakers wich are inside my all-in-one computer. What I can do now? My computer model is Medion Akoya P4010D. Sound card in Realtek High Definition Audio Codec chipset, version 6.0.1.6285.
Thanks very much.
Regards.

[wolfhowl]

Hello all having sound problems. NO sound comes out at all either from the headphone jack in the front or the speaker jack in the back. I have followed through these steps as well as I am able but have some questions. In step one I get

homestar@homestar:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
homestar@homestar:~$

which is fine until I try to do sudo modprobe snd- every variant I have tried comes back as not existing. no combination of ALC662 that I have tried or NVidia or HDA NVidia works.
When I go to search for the driver on the seperate website lists driver options for snd-hda-intel. I have tried getting ALSA from a fresh kernel and even tried doing the complilation myself without getting any error messages. Kinda at a loss as what to do next any help would be appreciated.

[HDTimeshifter]

My sound stopped working after upgrading to 11.04. My ALSA info is at:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=59...0d327765fb4cc7

[wpshooter]

Hello everyone.
I got a problem with codecs. So I installed ubuntu 10.10, made upgrade. Now I have sound coming out my sound card, but sound is not comin through speakers wich are inside my all-in-one computer. What I can do now? My computer model is Medion Akoya P4010D. Sound card in Realtek High Definition Audio Codec chipset, version 6.0.1.6285.
Thanks very much.
Regards.

If I have to read & digest everything that is in this thread to get the sound to work on my computer, I think I will just purchase M/S windows.

Thanks.

[DarkTide]

I also wanted to add my thanks to the long list. I tried every fix that I could find, but removing and reinstalling the linux-sound-base packages finally worked.

After four days of pounding away at the terminal, the little bongo noise at Ubuntu start up was quite suprising and exciting!