no sound

[Kissablysoft]

Ok, so I have searched everywhere that I can think of, google, here, ubuntu forums, etc. Can't seem to find my answer anywhere, so here I am posting. I have an old HP Pavillion 360n that a friend gave me. Everything seems to be working fine on it, except the sound. I get no sound what so ever. I ran aadebug program from alsa, here are the results:

ALSA Audio Debug v0.1.0 - Mon Sep 17 15:48:58 CDT 2007
http://alsa.opensrc.org/aadebug
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

Kernel ----------------------------------------------------
Linux kubuntu 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:55:27 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Loaded Modules --------------------------------------------
snd_via82xx 29208 1
snd_ac97_codec 98464 1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm_oss 44544 0
snd_mixer_oss 17408 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 79876 3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 10888 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 9472 1 snd_via82xx
snd_seq_dummy 4740 0
snd_seq_oss 32896 0
snd_seq_midi 9600 0
snd_rawmidi 25472 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8448 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 52592 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_timer 23684 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9100 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
snd 54020 13 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_o ss,snd_pcm,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device

Modprobe Conf ---------------------------------------------
Warning: module config file does not exist
This means any kernel modules will not be auto loaded
See your linux distro docs on how to create this file

Proc Asound -----------------------------------------------
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc1 (Tue Jan 09 09:56:17 2007 UTC).
0 [rev50 ]: VIA686A - VIA 82C686A/B rev50
VIA 82C686A/B rev50 with CS4299 at 0x1000, irq 10
2: : timer
3: : sequencer
4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
5: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
6: [ 0] : control
cat: /proc/asound/hwdep: No such file or directory
00-00: VIA 82C686A/B rev50 : VIA 82C686A/B rev50 : playback 1 : capture 1
Client info
cur clients : 3
peak clients : 4
max clients : 192

Client 0 : "System" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Timer" (Rwe-)
Port 1 : "Announce" (R-e-)
Connecting To: 15:0
Client 14 : "Midi Through" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Midi Through Port-0" (RWe-)
Client 15 : "OSS sequencer" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Receiver" (-we-)
Connected From: 0:1

Dev Snd ---------------------------------------------------
controlC0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D0p seq timer

CPU -------------------------------------------------------
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+
cpu MHz : 1599.722

RAM -------------------------------------------------------
MemTotal: 507856 kB
SwapTotal: 1477940 kB

Hardware --------------------------------------------------
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 81)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)


Any ideas on how to get this sound up and running?
Thanks in advance for any help.

[hangthedj]

Re: no sound

have you checked out linux-laptops.org?

[Snowhog]

Re: no sound

Any ideas on how to get this sound up and running?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Sound issues with laptops are common - I have it with my laptop. The solutions seem to be as varied as the number of makes and models of laptops out there. But, there are some simple adjustments you can make to see if you can get sound to work.

You want to edit your grub menu.lst file. But first, as a matter of safe practices, you want to make a backup of the original. So, we begin.

Open a Linux Console and type the following commands:

cd /boot/grub
sudo cp menu.lst menu.lst_original

You will be prompted for a password. Enter your password and press enter. Then, type:

kdesu kate menu.lst

Again, you will be prompted for a password. Enter your password and press enter. The Kate (Advanced Text Editor) editor will open with the menu.lst file ready for editing.

Scroll down to the first "kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic" line (it will be after the ## ## End Default Options ## entry). You want to add (type) the following at the end of this kernel line: acpi=off (be sure to add a space before acpi=off)
Close the file by File | Save from the Kate menu. Quit Kate.

Then perform a system shutdown/restart. If this fix works for your PC, you *should* have sound. Post back and let us know what happens.