Absolutely No Sound

[Cheemag]

I've just installed to a USB key. It's nice, and I'd like to keep it, but:

There's absolutely no sound.

Two cards fitted: integrated AC97 and a Soundblaster. Both are activated in the BIOS.
Mixer tabs are: CA0106 and NVidia CK804.

I suspect the CA0106 is the Soundlaster which is the one I'd want to use.
it seems to have hundreds of options. I've tried a lot of the options, but none work.

The CK804 (AC97??) has fewer options, but still doesn't work.

Anyone any ideas?

[dibl]

Re: Absolutely No Sound

Probably to run sound in Linux you will need to disable one of the sound chips, and set up the driver for the other one. I'm not sure which of those is easier to set up -- I would guess the AC97. But, IIRC, folks have got Soundblasters to work fine too.

[Guest]

Re: Absolutely No Sound

I have run into the no sound problem as well. The way i got it to work is pretty easy though.
Open the mixer panel.
Click on settings and select configure channels
Scroll down until you find "Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack
Put a check mark in the box beside it.
Close the configure panel and go back to the mixer window
You will see a new channel named audigy analog/digital output jack
There will probably be a check mark in the box that is labeled mute.
Uncheck this box and close the window
Hopefully you will have sound now.

[Cheemag]

Re: Absolutely No Sound

Probably to run sound in Linux you will need to disable one of the sound chips, and set up the driver for the other one. I'm not sure which of those is easier to set up -- I would guess the AC97. But, IIRC, folks have got Soundblasters to work fine too.

Rings a bell. I seem to recall having to do that on the PCLinuxOS machine which
also had two soundcards.

The AC97 would be easier, but the Soundblaster has more facilities (perhaps
too many!!)

[Cheemag]

Re: Absolutely No Sound

I have run into the no sound problem as well. The way i got it to work is pretty easy though.
Open the mixer panel.
Click on settings and select configure channels
Scroll down until you find "Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack
Put a check mark in the box beside it.
Close the configure panel and go back to the mixer window
You will see a new channel named audigy analog/digital output jack
There will probably be a check mark in the box that is labeled mute.
Uncheck this box and close the window
Hopefully you will have sound now.

Thanks, but I don't think I have the 'Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack'
option. I'm in Windows at the moment so can't immediately check.

When I next boot I'll check that.

Thanks again.

[Cheemag]

Re: Absolutely No Sound

I have run into the no sound problem as well. The way i got it to work is pretty easy though.
Open the mixer panel.
Click on settings and select configure channels
Scroll down until you find "Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack
Put a check mark in the box beside it.
Close the configure panel and go back to the mixer window
You will see a new channel named audigy analog/digital output jack
There will probably be a check mark in the box that is labeled mute.
Uncheck this box and close the window
Hopefully you will have sound now.

Thanks, but I don't think I have the 'Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack'
option. I'm in Windows at the moment so can't immediately check.

When I next boot I'll check that.

Thanks again.

Audigy isn't mentioned anywhere I'm afraid.

In any case, it seems that this distro unbelievably won't play .MP3s or Internet
radio, nor will it let me become root, which although it's a nice distro, with these
restrictions it is of little use to me.

[dibl]

Re: Absolutely No Sound

#6, #9, and #17 in my FAQs will answer the 3 issues that you have.

[Cheemag]

Re: Absolutely No Sound

#6, #9, and #17 in my FAQs will answer the 3 issues that you have.

I doubt if the root problem will work. I do not have a password; I was never
asked to supply a password.

I suspect that, running from a pen drive, I am treated as a "live" user and as
such have no root privileges. Rather pointless as any changes made to the
system are saved 'persistently'. I cannot understand why root privileges are
not incorporated in a pen drive system. I can't even change the text beneath
the icons on the desktop!

Nor can I understand why most distros can handle .MP3s out of the box
but others cannot.

Unfortunately I don't have a spare computer for an install of this distro.

[Cheemag]

Re: Absolutely No Sound

#6, #9, and #17 in my FAQs will answer the 3 issues that you have.

If only I could find them ...

[vinnywright]

Re: Absolutely No Sound

what are you looking for...........I beleave sudo works withought a password in that situation .........try as a test fdisk -l and then sudo fdisk -l and see if thars a diferenc.

VINNY

[dibl]

Re: Absolutely No Sound

If only I could find them ...

Link in my signature.

[vinnywright]

Re: Absolutely No Sound

just a FYI

this is as it was for me on a 2Gig Tribeca USB stick.

first I formated the drive as folows

Disk /dev/sdb: 2096 MB, 2096625664 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 254 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000208ee

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 189 1518111 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb2 190 254 522112+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

and installed the Karmic-9.10.ISO with the USB startup disk creator.

then got my box to boot it.


NOW as for the root deal........runing on a liveusb made like this it's the same as on the cd

you may use eney sudo comand and it's run as root with no password ............and "sudo su" will give you a root terminal.

as far as Mp3 and the sutch your right Kubuntu dosent ship with suport........but if you gave enuff of a persistence file (I think mine was abought 400MB) you can open Kpackagekit and enabel the universe and multiverse repos and then do a

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras

and you will then be abel to play Mp3's and .avi's and the sutch

now to do that I had to run dolphin as root (alt>F2 kdesudo dolphin) to be abell to acsess my files and play some ..........but play thay do

I'm on it now and it seams prity snappey

be right back after I see if it all survives a reboot

VINNY

[vinnywright]

Re: Absolutely No Sound

O yes after a reboot I can still play all my stuff ......................lisining to Ministry-05 - Jesus Built My Hotrod.mp3 on Amarok now..... ............... oop it just changed to.......Nickelback - Burn It To The Ground [2009][SkidVid]_XviD.avi ......ya on Amarok nice pitchure to 8)

VINNY