Installing Sound

[llloyd]

Hi! I hate to keep coming back here again and again but I am not finding much I can understand, as a Windows user, while trying to get the sound to work on Xubuntu 8.04 ...

The sound card is a SB 16 Pro (CT 2290) , afaik Alsa is what is installed but after some confusion on the alsa-project website where most of the commands didn't work, like alsamixer returned a command not found error in the Terminal window. But "alsa' does return something but only options are load, unload, etc nothing about configuring it. O.o

But I could be wrong, maybe remnants of Alsa is installed and I need the commands for the system that is indeed installed that handles sound on a default Xubuntu install. Any help be appreciated.

L. Lloyd

[Pumalite]

Let's find out if your card is recognized first. Post:
lshw -C sound

[llloyd]

Returns nothing, but noticed it isn't scanning the ISA bus, just PCI (sysfs), IDE, Scsi, and framebuffer devices... The sound card is an ISA card. O.o

L. Lloyd


Let's find out if your card is recognized first. Post:
lshw -C sound

[llloyd]

And yes, I do have the settings for the card... <peers>

I/O 220-22F
I/O 330-331
I/O 388-38B
IRQ 10
DMA 3
DMA 7

From the Win98 System properties...

L. Lloyd


Let's find out if your card is recognized first. Post:
lshw -C sound

[Pumalite]

Did you get that from the Terminal or your friends?.

[llloyd]

*hrrs?* From Windows 98, this is a dual boot setup. Now with that how do I go about getting this ISA sound card to work? Thanks!

L. Lloyd


Did you get that from the Terminal or your friends?.

[Pumalite]

What we are trying to determine here is if the Ubuntu kernel recognizes the card and loads the module. Looking at it from Windows is no good.

[llloyd]

And I said earlier, the command you gave me doesn't scan the ISA bus, so, no, it didn't see the ISA soundcard... That command you gave me turned up nothing...

L. Lloyd


What we are trying to determine here is if the Ubuntu kernel recognizes the card and loads the module. Looking at it from Windows is no good.

[Pumalite]

show me the nothingness...

[llloyd]

Show the nothingness... Ok... Pardon if I sound frustrated, not your fault... Let me see...

llloyd@Kenya:~$ sudo lshw -C sound
llloyd@Kenya:~$

There, nothing.

L. Lloyd


show me the nothingness...

[Pumalite]

Try:
sudo lshw

[llloyd]

llloyd@Kenya:~$ sudo lshw
kenya
description: Computer
product: System Name
vendor: System Manufacturer
version: System Version
serial: SYS-1234567890
width: 32 bits
capabilities: dmi-2.0
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: P5A-B
vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
physical id: 0
version: REV 1.XX
serial: MB-1234567890
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Award Software, Inc.
physical id: 0
version: ASUS P5A-B ACPI BIOS Revision 1011 Beta 005 (05/02/02)
size: 64KiB
capacity: 64KiB
capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppynec int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: 5.8.12
slot: SOCKET 7
size: 400MHz
capacity: 500MHz
width: 32 bits
clock: 100MHz
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr up
*-cache
description: L1 cache
physical id: 0
size: 64KiB
*-memory
description: System memory
product: FPM EDO PARITY DIMM SDRAM Memory Controller
physical id: 5
size: 320MiB
capacity: 1536MiB
*-bank:0
description: EDO DIMM [empty]
physical id: 0
slot: DIMM1-2
clock: 14MHz (70.0ns)
*-bank:1
description: DIMM
physical id: 1
slot: DIMM2-1
size: 64MiB
capacity: 64MiB
clock: 14MHz (70.0ns)
*-bank:2
description: EDO DIMM [empty]
physical id: 2
slot: DIMM2-2
clock: 14MHz (70.0ns)
*-bank:3
description: DIMM
physical id: 3
slot: DIMM3-1
size: 128MiB
capacity: 128MiB
clock: 14MHz (70.0ns)
*-bank:4
description: DIMM
physical id: 4
slot: DIMM3-2
size: 128MiB
capacity: 128MiB
clock: 14MHz (70.0ns)
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: c
slot: L1 Cache
size: 64KiB
capacity: 64KiB
capabilities: internal write-back
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: d
slot: L2 Cache
size: 512KiB
capacity: 1MiB
capabilities: pipeline-burst external write-back
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: M1541
vendor: ALi Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 04
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=agpgart-ali latency=64 module=ali_agp
*-pci
description: PCI bridge
product: M1541 PCI to AGP Controller
vendor: ALi Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 04
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Voodoo 3
vendor: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: agp agp-1.0 pm vga_controller cap_list
configuration: driver=voodoo3_smbus latency=0 module=i2c_voodoo3
*-usb
description: USB Controller
product: USB 1.1 Controller
vendor: ALi Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ohci bus_master
configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=64 maxlatency=80 module=ohci_hcd
*-bridge
description: Bridge
product: M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
vendor: ALi Corporation
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:00:03.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bridge
configuration: driver=ali15x3_smbus latency=0 module=i2c_ali15x3
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
vendor: ALi Corporation
physical id: 7
bus info: pci@0000:00:07.0
version: c3
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8029(AS)
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: b
bus info: pci@0000:00:0b.0
logical name: eth0
version: 00
serial: 00:40:05:5e:b0:b0
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ne2k-pci driverversion=1.03 ip=192.168.0.2 latency=0 module=ne2k_pci multicast=yes
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: M5229 IDE
vendor: ALi Corporation
physical id: f
bus info: pci@0000:00:0f.0
version: c1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master
configuration: driver=ALI15x3_IDE latency=32 maxlatency=4 mingnt=2 module=alim15x3
*-ide:0
description: IDE Channel 0
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@0
logical name: ide0
clock: 33MHz
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: WDC WD400AB-32BVA0
vendor: Western Digital
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@0.0
logical name: /dev/hda
version: 21.01H21
serial: WD-WMA7E1805000
size: 37GiB (40GB)
capacity: 37GiB (40GB)
capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: signature=493c1b77 smart=on
*-volume:0
description: Windows FAT volume
vendor: MSWIN4.1
physical id: 1
bus info: ide@0.0,1
logical name: /dev/hda1
version: FAT32
serial: 0f5e-1900
size: 10001MiB
capacity: 10001MiB
capabilities: primary bootable fat initialized
configuration: FATs=2 filesystem=fat
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: ide@0.0,2
logical name: /dev/hda2
size: 27GiB
capacity: 27GiB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume:0
description: W95 FAT32 partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/hda5
capacity: 17GiB
*-logicalvolume:1
description: Linux filesystem partition
physical id: 6
logical name: /dev/hda6
logical name: /
logical name: /dev/.static/dev
capacity: 9060MiB
configuration: mount.fstype=ext3 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered state=mounted
*-logicalvolume:2
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 7
logical name: /dev/hda7
capacity: 941MiB
capabilities: nofs
*-ide:1
description: IDE Channel 1
physical id: 1
bus info: ide@1
logical name: ide1
clock: 33MHz
*-cdrom
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S202G
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@1.0
logical name: /dev/hdc
version: SB00
capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: status=nodisc
llloyd@Kenya:~$



Try:
sudo lshw

[Pumalite]

I don't see any sound card. Check your BIOS.

[llloyd]

Check it for what? The sound card works beautifully in Win98SE, just not seen by Xubuntu. So it has to be OS not hardware I would think?

L. Lloyd


I don't see any sound card. Check your BIOS.

[Pumalite]

open up all your ports except src and do a:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[llloyd]

I apologize if I sound *stupid*, I am only a Windows user... Open up all my ports but src ? O.o

L. Lloyd


open up all your ports except src and do a:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[Pumalite]

System>Administration>Software Sources

[llloyd]

Thank you! Now, let me see...

Under the Software Sources ...

Ubuntu Software Tab ...

Canonical Sources (main) is checked
Community-maintained (Universe) is checked
Proprietary Drivers (restricted) is checked
Software Restricted by copywrite (multi verse) is checked
Source Code has a "-" though the box.

Third Party Software Tab ...

Two cdrom: is unchecked
Two http:// is checked

And the two sudo apt-get commands return...

llloyd@Kenya:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://archive.canonical.com hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.canonical.com hardy/partner Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.canonical.com hardy Release
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release
Hit http://archive.canonical.com hardy/partner Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.canonical.com hardy/partner Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Sources
Reading package lists... Done
llloyd@Kenya:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libdns35
The following packages will be upgraded:
bind9-host dnsutils libbind9-30 libisc32 libisccc30 libisccfg30 liblwres30
7 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 903kB of archives.
After this operation, 1311kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main libisc32 1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1 [126kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main libdns35 1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1 [493kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main libisccc30 1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1 [22.9kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main libisccfg30 1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1 [38.3kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main libbind9-30 1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1 [27.3kB]
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main liblwres30 1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1 [40.1kB]
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main bind9-host 1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1 [44.7kB]
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main dnsutils 1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1 [110kB]
Fetched 903kB in 5s (159kB/s)
(Reading database ... 90988 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libisc32 1:9.4.2-10 (using .../libisc32_1%3a9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libisc32 ...
Selecting previously deselected package libdns35.
Unpacking libdns35 (from .../libdns35_1%3a9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
Preparing to replace libisccc30 1:9.4.2-10 (using .../libisccc30_1%3a9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libisccc30 ...
Preparing to replace libisccfg30 1:9.4.2-10 (using .../libisccfg30_1%3a9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libisccfg30 ...
Preparing to replace libbind9-30 1:9.4.2-10 (using .../libbind9-30_1%3a9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libbind9-30 ...
Preparing to replace liblwres30 1:9.4.2-10 (using .../liblwres30_1%3a9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement liblwres30 ...
Preparing to replace bind9-host 1:9.4.2-10 (using .../bind9-host_1%3a9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement bind9-host ...
Preparing to replace dnsutils 1:9.4.2-10 (using .../dnsutils_1%3a9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dnsutils ...
Setting up libisc32 (1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1) ...

Setting up libdns35 (1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1) ...

Setting up libisccc30 (1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1) ...

Setting up libisccfg30 (1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1) ...

Setting up libbind9-30 (1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1) ...

Setting up liblwres30 (1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1) ...

Setting up bind9-host (1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1) ...
Setting up dnsutils (1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1) ...

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
llloyd@Kenya:~$

Ok? Shall I redo the sudo lshw -C sound ? Thanks!

L. Lloyd



System>Administration>Software Sources

[Pumalite]

Do it again. You need backports.

[llloyd]

Backports?

L. Lloyd


Do it again. You need backports.

[Pumalite]

Check your Software Sources again.

[Sealbhach]

I'd just like to suggest this thread here - it's helped a lot of people.

It does a step-by-step diagnostic.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683


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