No sound

[Phineas]

I'm currently using the Kubuntu live CD trial and so far I like it. I want to install it permanently but I have a slight problem. There is no sound. I get no error messages of any kind, and KMix detects the nvidia nforce2 chipset. Any ideas on how to fix this?

The same thing happened a few months back when I tried Fedora. They suggested some solutions but none worked.

Is this the fault of my hardware? If so then why does it work under Windows, but not under Linux?

[askrieger]

Re: No sound

why does it work under Windows, but not under Linux?

The standard answer to that one is that the manufacturer gave M$ some proprietary information about her setup that was not made available to Linux.

However, that's usually not the cause of sound problems. I suggest following ALL the suggestions on this HowTo. It may or may not get your sound working, but you'll learn something, either way.

[OU812]

Re: No sound

If this is a 3rd-party card, you may have to disable your motherboard's soundcard in your bios settings.

john