No Sound - Help Please?

[Bye1918]

Okay, I decided to take the plunge and dual-boot Ubuntu and Windows XP. But after I install Ubuntu into its own partition, boot it up, get all the packages I want/need, I go to YouTube. No sound. Video, but no sound.

Curious, I try Rhythmbox. When I try to play an .OGG, nothing. No sound whatsoever. The "Sound Device" tests in the System menu also come up blank. They just say "Testing" with a bar going back and forth below them and no sound coming from my speakers.

Can I get some help here?

[HunterA3]

Do you know what soundcard is in your system?

[halitech]

open a terminal (Applications - Accessories - terminal) and post the output of

lspci

and

aplay -l

[Bye1918]

No, but I've been reading up, and I think this may help you guys help me.

Here's the result when I enter "aplay -l" in the terminal.

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[Bye1918]

The lspci command just pumps out every piece of hardware in the computer. I doubt you need that if you have just the soundcard. If you do, tell me.

[Bye1918]

Any ideas folks? I imagine it's gotta be something simple, I just am not familiar enough with Ubuntu or Linux in general to do it.

[knattlhuber]

There is a "Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide" by LordRaiden, it has helped many of us here to get their soundcards working:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449

[Bye1918]

Can't find my solution. As I say, I really don't quite know what I'm doing with the command line, and thusly I'd really appreciate if somebody could help me specifically.

[Bye1918]

Got it! Messed around with alsamixer long enough that I finally unmuted the right thing! It was changing surround from "shared" to "independant" that did the trick.

[knattlhuber]

Got it! Messed around with alsamixer long enough that I finally unmuted the right thing! It was changing surround from "shared" to "independant" that did the trick.

Great! Welcome to Ubuntu!