I've been searching all over and have found many suggested solutions, but none have helped. My machine was down for a couple of weeks while I ripped out our home office. Upon restarting the machine, there were a slew of updates, including kernel. Everything seemed to go well, until I noticed later that I had no sound.
On further inspection, I've noticed that the desktop effects are acting very weird, AND trying to watch any flash based video results in the video just plain stopping after two seconds.
My first priority is sound. If I can't listen to my Internet radio and MP3s, my productivity is out the window, lost, gone. May be silly, but it's true.
I will list all the outputs of various commands I've seen mentioned while looking for assistance, in hopes that it can help someone to help me best. I must make it clear that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing and require very basic explanations and instructions most of the time in order to grasp what's going on. I apologize for my ignorance.
Specs:
AMD64 3400+
Biostar GeForce6100-M9
Sound Blaster Audigy SE
1.5 GB RAM
500 + 40 GB WD HDDs
Kubuntu 8.04
(also added an nVidia video card, can't recall what it is at the moment)
I'd tried removing the sound card and seeing if the onboard sound would work, but it never, ever has. I reinserted the sound card into another slot on the motherboard, just for the heck of it, no change. I put the sound card back into its original location, still no sound.
I have tried selecting earlier kernel versions w/GRUB to no avail. The various sound level devices have not been muted as far as I can tell.
alsamixer gives me this:
And continuing to the right:
Adjusting the bars up and down has also produced no results.
After trying some of the things suggested in this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449
I have gotten the following outputs:
That doesn't look very promising since I don't see anything about a Creative SoundBlaster card anywhere. Or anything I even remotely recognize, but I'm far from experienced at this sort of thing.
That at least gives me something, but <access denied> doesn't look like a good thing, either.
I get to step three and that's where I hit the wall.
That link only goes to a directory, and clicking the one folder in there takes me to somewhere that doesn't seem particularly helpful to the lost and confused like myself.
I read that installing linux-generic would help. No luck.
Saw that lshw -C sound might shed light on things:
Following the lead of this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=839537
Hrm.
And another command I saw elsewhere...
Should it be called that or should it somehow reflect something more specific about the card?
Is there a way I can uninstall my soundcard and reinstall it? Would that have any chance at all at bringing sound capabilities back?
On further inspection, I've noticed that the desktop effects are acting very weird, AND trying to watch any flash based video results in the video just plain stopping after two seconds.
My first priority is sound. If I can't listen to my Internet radio and MP3s, my productivity is out the window, lost, gone. May be silly, but it's true.
I will list all the outputs of various commands I've seen mentioned while looking for assistance, in hopes that it can help someone to help me best. I must make it clear that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing and require very basic explanations and instructions most of the time in order to grasp what's going on. I apologize for my ignorance.
Specs:
AMD64 3400+
Biostar GeForce6100-M9
Sound Blaster Audigy SE
1.5 GB RAM
500 + 40 GB WD HDDs
Kubuntu 8.04
(also added an nVidia video card, can't recall what it is at the moment)
I'd tried removing the sound card and seeing if the onboard sound would work, but it never, ever has. I reinserted the sound card into another slot on the motherboard, just for the heck of it, no change. I put the sound card back into its original location, still no sound.
I have tried selecting earlier kernel versions w/GRUB to no avail. The various sound level devices have not been muted as far as I can tell.
alsamixer gives me this:
Code:
┌──────────────────[AlsaMixer v1.0.15 (Press Escape to quit)]──────────────────┐ │ Card: CA0106 │ │ Chip: │ │ View: [Playback] Capture All │ │ Item: IEC958 │ │ │ │ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ > │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ > │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ > │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ > │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ > │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ > │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ ┌──┐ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ ├──┤ ├──┤ ├──┤ │ │ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │ │ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ │ │ 10<>10 10<>10 10<>10 10<>10 15<>15 10<>10 10<>10 │ │ < IEC958 >IEC958 C IEC958 F IEC958 R IEC958 U Analog C Analog F Analog R │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Code:
┌──────────────────[AlsaMixer v1.0.15 (Press Escape to quit)]──────────────────┐ │ Card: CA0106 │ │ Chip: │ │ View: [Playback] Capture All │ │ Item: CAPTURE feedback [dB gain=-45.50, -45.50] │ │ │ │ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ < │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ < │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ < │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ < │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ < │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ < │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ ├──┤ ├──┤ ├──┤ ├──┤ └──┘ │ │ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │ │ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ │ │ 10<>10 10<>10 10<>10 15<>15 10<>10 10<>10 10<>10 10<>10 │ │ IEC958 F IEC958 R IEC958 U Analog C Analog F Analog R Analog S<CAPTURE > │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
After trying some of the things suggested in this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449
I have gotten the following outputs:
Code:
aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 0: ca0106 [CA0106] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 1: ca0106 [CA0106] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 2: ca0106 [CA0106] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 3: ca0106 [CA0106] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Code:
lspci -v
03:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device 100a
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
I/O ports at bc00 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
I get to step three and that's where I hit the wall.
(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).
I read that installing linux-generic would help. No luck.
Code:
sudo aptitude install linux generic Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Building tag database... Done Couldn't find package "generic", and more than 40 packages contain "generic" in their name. Couldn't find package "generic", and more than 40 packages contain "generic" in their name. The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: homebank-data libofx4 libosp5 libsqlite0 linux-headers-2.6.24-17 linux-headers-2.6.24-17-generic linux-headers-2.6.24-18 linux-headers-2.6.24-18-generic The following NEW packages will be installed: linux linux-image linux-restricted-modules 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 8 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 79.4kB of archives. After unpacking 143MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Done Get:1 [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] hardy-updates/main linux-image 2.6.24.19.21 [26.4kB] Get:2 [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] hardy-updates/restricted linux-restricted-modules 2.6.24.19.21 [26.5kB] Get:3 [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] hardy-updates/restricted linux 2.6.24.19.21 [26.5kB] Fetched 79.4kB in 1s (60.8kB/s) (Reading database ... 160275 files and directories currently installed.) Removing homebank-data ... Removing libofx4 ... Removing libosp5 ... Removing libsqlite0 ... Removing linux-headers-2.6.24-17-generic ... Removing linux-headers-2.6.24-17 ... Removing linux-headers-2.6.24-18-generic ... Removing linux-headers-2.6.24-18 ... Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Selecting previously deselected package linux-image. (Reading database ... 130629 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-image (from .../linux-image_2.6.24.19.21_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package linux-restricted-modules. Unpacking linux-restricted-modules (from .../linux-restricted-modules_2.6.24.19.21_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package linux. Unpacking linux (from .../linux_2.6.24.19.21_i386.deb) ... Setting up linux-image (2.6.24.19.21) ... Setting up linux-restricted-modules (2.6.24.19.21) ... Setting up linux (2.6.24.19.21) ... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Building tag database... Done
Code:
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-multimedia
description: Multimedia audio controller
product: SB Audigy LS
vendor: Creative Labs
physical id: 6
bus info: pci@0000:03:06.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=CA0106 latency=32 maxlatency=20 mingnt=2 module=snd_ca0106
sudo alsaconf
sudo: alsaconf: command not found
sudo: alsaconf: command not found
sudo apt-get install alsa-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
alsa-utils is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
alsa-utils is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
And another command I saw elsewhere...
Code:
soundconf list Names of available sound cards: CA0106
Is there a way I can uninstall my soundcard and reinstall it? Would that have any chance at all at bringing sound capabilities back?
Checking alsamixer one more time, noticed that FRONT output did not have its green light on, switched it on, and then "Hello, this is Matthias Ettrich..." YAY!
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