Very vexxing no sound issue and don't want to go back to windoze

[bloggermouth]

I have been through message board after message board trying to resolve this issue and nothing has worked.

Can anyone with a bit of patience help me get sound on this computer.

It is an older P3 600mhz Coppermine cpu with a Live Value sound card.

I have installed Pulseaudio and ALSA.

Hardy Heron 8.04 and the latest KDE release.

Please help

[divide0]

Re: Very vexxing no sound issue and don't want to go back to windoze

Have you tried the famous "sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset" followed by a reboot? This is what got my sound working. Just open a terminal and type (or copy and paste) it in.

[aged hippy]

Re: Very vexxing no sound issue and don't want to go back to windoze

It may be necessary to go into the BIOS and Disable on-board sound as you have a sound-card.

I don't know if this will work for you, but i hope it does.... it did for me.

[bloggermouth]

Re: Very vexxing no sound issue and don't want to go back to windoze

Have you tried the famous "sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset" followed by a reboot? This is what got my sound working. Just open a terminal and type (or copy and paste) it in.

Tried that and here is the result:
* Resetting ALSA... Invalid card number.
Usage: amixer <options> [command]
Available options:
-h,--help this help
-c,--card N select the card
-D,--device N select the device, default 'default'
-d,--debug debug mode
-n,--nocheck do not perform range checking
-v,--version print version of this program
-q,--quiet be quiet
-i,--inactive show also inactive controls
-a,--abstract L select abstraction level (none or basic)
-s,--stdin Read and execute commands from stdin sequentially
Available commands:
scontrols show all mixer simple controls
scontents show contents of all mixer simple controls (default command)
sset sID P set contents for one mixer simple control
sget sID get contents for one mixer simple control
controls show all controls for given card
contents show contents of all controls for given card
cset cID P set control contents for one control
cget cID get control contents for one control

[bloggermouth]

Re: Very vexxing no sound issue and don't want to go back to windoze

It may be necessary to go into the BIOS and Disable on-board sound as you have a sound-card.

I don't know if this will work for you, but i hope it does.... it did for me.

I don't have on-board sound but thanks for the input.

[divide0]

Re: Very vexxing no sound issue and don't want to go back to windoze

Invalid card number...you said you had Pulseaudio, too? They could be conflicting...

It's also possible that Kubuntu is simply not detecting your sound card, although this is probably not the case.

[tinker]

Re: Very vexxing no sound issue and don't want to go back to windoze

Well bloggermouth, I don't have much patience, or time, today but I will try to help you.

You might want to check /var/log/dmesg to see what the system thought it saw at boot. Or, check with a GUI, for example KDE info center, to see what audio devices it shows on your system. I think that might get you started on the right track. Gosh, you might even try opening a terminal and entering alsamixer, it would probably tell you which card it was trying to use and, if that conflicts with the card you want to use, you will have data for a specific question. Older sound cards like in a P3 system should be recognised these days, unless it is some odd brand or something like that.

[Edit] When you mention latest KDE, are you referring to 4, if so, someone who uses 4 might have an answer if it is a KDE specific issue , I wouldn't be able to help with that.