Sound card not installed

[tsqueezer]

A friend installed Xubuntu just yesterday. I am a user of this system for about 17 hours. He forgot to install the sound card, so I have 0 sound. Looking at the device manager, it appears my sound is: HDA VIA VT82xx. Please tell me how to get my sound card to work. I've got an old computer; previously I was using Windows 2000.

[dino99]

install with synaptic (system admin synaptic): paprefs and alsamixer

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting

maybe better help on xubuntu forum

[tsqueezer]

I'm following the links and instructions, but I'm hopelessly confused. I know at least that the family of sound cards I have are supposed to be supported, not sure about the specific one. How do I get to Xubuntu forum?

[tsqueezer]

Using the terminal, I got this far:

00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Device 3206
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 23
I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Device 3206
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
Memory at fdfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Device 3206
Flags: medium devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: i2c-viapro

00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 337e
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Device 2200
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 23
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at fdffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: via-rhine
Kernel modules: via-rhine

00:13.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge (prog-if 01)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0

[tsqueezer]

I'm working on this in another forum. If I could delete this thread here, I would.