No sound

**tL0z** · September 16th, 2008

Hello,

I have no sound in Ubuntu and I have no idea how to fix it. I have a Creative Soundblast sound card.

Thanks

**Freiberg** · September 16th, 2008

Could you be a little more specific? What you have tried already, whether you have made sure that Ubuntu supports the sound card, etc.

**tuxxy** · September 16th, 2008

Do you hear the test sound files play, when you select ALSA as the sound output at system > prefs > sound

**tL0z** · September 16th, 2008

It worked fine in 7.04, that's why I don't understand why it doesn't work now. I didn't try anything, except trying this utility which also didn't solve the problem.

Originally Posted by tuxxy

Do you hear the test sound files play, when you select ALSA as the sound output at system > prefs > sound

Nop

**tuxxy** · September 17th, 2008

Maybe you soundcard isnt selected, if you have a soundblaster icon/menu make sure its selected rather than your using onboard

**Squid Tamer** · September 17th, 2008

This sounds really, really stupid, but make sure that your speakers are plugged in/in the correct port/turned on.

It's happened to me and others before, and it's easy to miss. I doubt
that is the problem though.

(If you have a laptop this is useless, of course.)
(Don't take this as an insult to your intelligence please

)

**halitech** · September 17th, 2008

open a terminal and post back the output of

Code:

aplay -l

**jan de beuker** · September 17th, 2008

check your volume control

**tL0z** · September 17th, 2008

Originally Posted by halitech

open a terminal and post back the output of

Code:

aplay -l

**** Lista de Dispositivos de Hardware PLAYBACK ****
placa 0: Audigy [Audigy 1 [Unknown]], dispositivo 0: emu10k1 [ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback]
Subdispositivos: 32/32
Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
Subdispositivo #1: subdevice #1
Subdispositivo #2: subdevice #2
Subdispositivo #3: subdevice #3
Subdispositivo #4: subdevice #4
Subdispositivo #5: subdevice #5
Subdispositivo #6: subdevice #6
Subdispositivo #7: subdevice #7
Subdispositivo #8: subdevice #8
Subdispositivo #9: subdevice #9
Subdispositivo #10: subdevice #10
Subdispositivo #11: subdevice #11
Subdispositivo #12: subdevice #12
Subdispositivo #13: subdevice #13
Subdispositivo #14: subdevice #14
Subdispositivo #15: subdevice #15
Subdispositivo #16: subdevice #16
Subdispositivo #17: subdevice #17
Subdispositivo #18: subdevice #18
Subdispositivo #19: subdevice #19
Subdispositivo #20: subdevice #20
Subdispositivo #21: subdevice #21
Subdispositivo #22: subdevice #22
Subdispositivo #23: subdevice #23
Subdispositivo #24: subdevice #24
Subdispositivo #25: subdevice #25
Subdispositivo #26: subdevice #26
Subdispositivo #27: subdevice #27
Subdispositivo #28: subdevice #28
Subdispositivo #29: subdevice #29
Subdispositivo #30: subdevice #30
Subdispositivo #31: subdevice #31
placa 0: Audigy [Audigy 1 [Unknown]], dispositivo 2: emu10k1 efx [Multichannel Capture/PT Playback]
Subdispositivos: 8/8
Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
Subdispositivo #1: subdevice #1
Subdispositivo #2: subdevice #2
Subdispositivo #3: subdevice #3
Subdispositivo #4: subdevice #4
Subdispositivo #5: subdevice #5
Subdispositivo #6: subdevice #6
Subdispositivo #7: subdevice #7
placa 0: Audigy [Audigy 1 [Unknown]], dispositivo 3: emu10k1 [Multichannel Playback]
Subdispositivos: 1/1
Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0

By the way, I have tried the "first step" of http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843012lthis guide and it still doesn't work.