Sound Problem

[SourTreeThing]

Hi, I'm pretty new to Kubuntu, just switched about 3 weeks ago. The problem I am having is that everytime I reboot my computer, sound won't work. Any ideas how to fix this?

[askrieger]

Re: Sound Problem

Try to follow ALL the suggestions in this HowTo. At the very least, you'll a lot of useful things about debugging hardware, and you stand a very good chance of getting your sound back.

[SourTreeThing]

Re: Sound Problem

My brother fixed it for me once, it was just that everything auto-updated except my kernel headers or something.

My output of trying to restart alsa is this

tree@sour:~$ /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
Shutting down sound driver: !!!alsactl not found!!! ERROR: Removing 'snd_opl3_lib': Operation not permitted
ERROR: Module snd_timer is in use by snd_opl3_lib
ERROR: Module snd_hwdep is in use by snd_opl3_lib
ERROR: Removing 'snd_mpu401_uart': Operation not permitted
ERROR: Module snd_rawmidi is in use by snd_mpu401_uart
ERROR: Module snd_seq_device is in use by snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
ERROR: Module snd is in use by snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,s nd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
done
ALSA driver is already running.

And if I try running kmix i get this

tree@sour:~$ kmix
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device

[askrieger]

Re: Sound Problem

The kmix errors have nothing to do with your present problem. You will see those every time you try to start a GUI program, like kmix, from the command line. To find out how to get rid of them, search the forum for the "wacom". Start kmix from the multimedia section of the K menu.

Try switching temporarily to a different sound driver in the "System Settings" > "Sound & Multimedia" > Hardware Tab > "select audio device" dropdown box.

[SourTreeThing]

Re: Sound Problem

hmm i can't find any sound devices in /dev

[askrieger]

Re: Sound Problem

They're called audio. Look for the word audio in the group column when you have konqueror in "detailed list view" or to find them all in swell foop, start a konsole and rune the command

ls-l /dev | grep audio

That's ell-es dash ell "pipe" grep audio.

There's also a whole directory called /dev/snd/.