Another no sound thread

[hamiltonfighter]

I have searched and am lost.

I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 notebook.
Sound is: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)

The sound has not worked from when I installed Kubuntu.

It would be appreciated If someone could help walk me through fixing this.

Thanks.

[dibl]

Re: Another no sound thread

This troubleshooting guide should help you:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449

[hamiltonfighter]

Re: Another no sound thread

(3) Check to see if the ALSA driver for your sound card exists. Go to http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ and search for your sound card (chipset) manufacturer in the dropdown box. You'll be given a matrix of the sound cards made by the manufacturer. Try to match the chipset you found in step 2 with the driver(green hyperlink text).

* Success - You will have found the driver for your soundcard's chipset.

* Failure - You will have not found the driver for your soundcard chipset. (at the moment I cannot help you, but stay tuned!)

I went to the site listed and I think the format has changed. It talks about a drop-down window and there is none on the site.

Also, I checked alsamixer and it is unmuted.

[dibl]

Re: Another no sound thread

What did

aplay -l

show you?

[hamiltonfighter]

Re: Another no sound thread

Here's some more info incase it helps for anything.

I'm wondering if my sound card is supported. I found drivers for ES1968 but not for the ES1978.

leah@Hamilton:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: E2E [ESS ES1978 (Maestro 2E)], device 0: ESS Maestro [ESS Maestro]
Subdevices: 3/4
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
leah@Hamilton:~$ alsamixer

leah@Hamilton:~$ modinfo soundcore
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko
alias: char-major-14-*
license: GPL
author: Alan Cox
description: Core sound module
srcversion: 548AA54AF08207316C104F8
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.22-14-generic SMP mod_unload 586
leah@Hamilton:~$

[dibl]

Re: Another no sound thread

I Googled around a bit, and turned up this site that says the ES1968 driver works for that ES1978 chip, at least for earlier Debian kernels:

http://www.calel.org/pci-devices/als...-list.html#ESS

But I don't know what module you need to install that driver. :P


EDIT: Also found this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToSetupSoundCards

For fun, why don't you try

sudo modprobe snd-es1968

I don't think it can hurt anything.

[marshallbanana]

Re: Another no sound thread

The time I had sound problems I solved them by the method mentioned in my post thats linked
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...2408#msg102408

[hamiltonfighter]

Re: Another no sound thread

I Googled around a bit, and turned up this site that says the ES1968 driver works for that ES1978 chip, at least for earlier Debian kernels:

http://www.calel.org/pci-devices/als...-list.html#ESS

But I don't know what module you need to install that driver. :P


EDIT: Also found this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToSetupSoundCards

For fun, why don't you try

sudo modprobe snd-es1968

I don't think it can hurt anything.

Sorry for the delayed reply.

I tried the code and nothing happened.

[hamiltonfighter]

Re: Another no sound thread

The time I had sound problems I solved them by the method mentioned in my post thats linked
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...2408#msg102408

Are you refering to Alsamixer being muted? I already looked at that and it is not muted.

[marshallbanana]

Re: Another no sound thread

Yeah, thats what I was referring to.

[hamiltonfighter]

Re: Another no sound thread

I've never got the sound working. Just checking if anymore ideas.

[Snowhog]

Re: Another no sound thread

Unless you have already tried this ....

On my Toshiba Satellite P105-S6147 laptop, I have to add the acpi=off to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.list to get working sound.