no sound!

[vkkim]

I have a Panasonic Let's Note R3 laptop and have no sound, although another R3 user in this forum has said her sound worked out of the box. I am a complete newbie with GNU/Linux. Help!

[Shinitenshi]

Well when i installed ubuntu i had some sound but on some programs it dint really work. so i installed libsdl1.2debian-esd and everything works now.

I am not sure if this is whats wrong with yours.

[vkkim]

I tried installing libsdl1.2debian-esd per your suggestion to no avail... someone please help!

[vkkim]

anybody?

[varunus]

What sound card is in the laptop? Also, post the output of "lspci" and "lsmod".

Also check that your volumes aren't muted. Right click on volume icon in panel and choose 'Open Volume Control'

[89c51]

have you tried the latest alsa 1.0.9 (if i remember well)

[vkkim]

Originally Posted by varunus What sound card is in the laptop? Also, post the output of "lspci" and "lsmod".

I'm not sure what sound card I have installed, but lspci returns:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Memory I/O Control Registers (rev 02)
0000:00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Configuration Process Registers (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 855GME GMCH Host-to-AGP Bridge (Virtual PCI-to-PCI) (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 83)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:02:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 4223 (rev 05)
0000:02:05.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 8
0000:02:05.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0575

and lsmod returns:

Module Size Used by
button 6480 0
ehci_hcd 32708 0
uhci_hcd 32816 0
ipw2200 133100 0
8139too 25856 0
cisco_ipsec 394732 0
nls_utf8 1952 0
nls_cp437 5600 0
vfat 13824 0
fat 41760 1 vfat
sd_mod 17776 0
usb_storage 71936 0
scsi_mod 127552 2 sd_mod,usb_storage
ipv6 257888 6
speedstep_centrino 7892 1
proc_intf 3908 0
freq_table 4004 1 speedstep_centrino
cpufreq_userspace 4348 1
cpufreq_ondemand 6140 0
cpufreq_powersave 1632 0
pcmcia 22244 2
video 15972 0
sony_acpi 5928 0
pcc_acpi 11008 0
i915 19552 1
drm 65172 2 i915
battery 9988 4
container 4320 0
ac 4676 3
af_packet 21992 4
yenta_socket 21344 0
pcmcia_core 57984 2 pcmcia,yenta_socket
arc4 1728 0
ieee80211_crypt_wep 5220 0
firmware_class 9984 1 ipw2200
ieee80211 36388 1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt 5960 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211
8139cp 20416 0
mii 4896 2 8139too,8139cp
snd_intel8x0 32352 1
snd_ac97_codec 74144 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 52132 0
snd_mixer_oss 19680 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 94696 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25060 1 snd_pcm
snd 55012 8 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_ oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10016 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9732 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
i2c_i801 8364 0
i2c_core 22320 1 i2c_i801
hw_random 5300 0
usbcore 119000 4 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd,usb_storage
shpchp 99172 0
pci_hotplug 33488 1 shpchp
intel_agp 22140 1
agpgart 33608 3 drm,intel_agp
rtc 12472 0
pcspkr 3496 0
md 47440 0
evdev 9344 1
joydev 9664 0
dm_mod 59420 1
tsdev 7520 0
capability 4648 0
commoncap 7712 1 capability
psmouse 21320 0
mousedev 11288 1
parport_pc 37252 0
lp 11144 0
parport 36744 2 parport_pc,lp
ide_cd 41700 0
cdrom 40220 1 ide_cd
ext3 137256 1
jbd 60536 1 ext3
mbcache 8356 1 ext3
ide_generic 1312 0
piix 10340 1
ide_disk 20416 3
ide_core 129356 5 usb_storage,ide_cd,ide_generic,piix,ide_disk
unix 28276 1079
thermal 13320 0
processor 22452 2 speedstep_centrino,thermal
fan 4388 0
fbcon 37504 0
font 8192 1 fbcon
bitblit 5472 1 fbcon
vesafb 6724 0
cfbcopyarea 3808 1 vesafb
cfbimgblt 2912 1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 3488 1 vesafb

Originally Posted by manicka Also check that your volumes aren't muted. Right click on volume icon in panel and choose 'Open Volume Control'

First thing I did.

Originally Posted by 89c51 have you tried the latest alsa 1.0.9 (if i remember well)

I'm not quite sure how to do that, but I do have alsa-base 1.0.8-4ubuntu4 installed in synaptics, if that helps.

Thank you everyone that has tried helping so far... I really like Ubuntu and this sound problem is really getting on my nerves

[strandlooper]

To get alsa 1.0.9 - just change to Breezy (Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide) - install as usual - change back to Hoary.

Good luck

[vkkim]

I kinda feel uncomfortable upgrading to Breezy, as I find this warning on the Unofficial Ubuntu Starter Guide: Warning! This is still in it's development stage. Only use it for experimental purposes. Doing this might break your entire system.

Is there anything else that I could try before doing this? Or will alsa 1.0.9 fix all my problems?