I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

[Prescience]

Just installed Kubuntu 10.04 on this computer and I can't get sound to work. I suspect it's a driver issue.

In terminal, lspci returns the following:

00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:02.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:02.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus (rev a2)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a1)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:0e.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:0e.2 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:0f.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge (rev a2)
00:11.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:12.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:14.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:17.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. Sil 3531 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01)
05:06.0 Class 3a69: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 86)
05:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev c0)
09:00.0 PCI bridge: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG PCI to PCIe Bridge
0a:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG

[josefko]

Re: I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

Try if some sounds are not muted. Type alsamixer from the shell or choose a speaker icon in the panel and check out all related sliders.

Corrected alfamixer > alsamixer

[miKeyBabid]

Re: I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

i think you mean to open a terminal and type :

alsamixer

[josefko]

Re: I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

miKeyBabid@ I am not a native speaker, but I think that a terminal, a shell, Command-line interface and CLI means the same.

[Snowhog]

Re: I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

You speak well enough - better than many!

I understood what you meant. I'm sure Prescience did/would have understood as well.

[josefko]

Re: I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

Snowhog@ Thank you, nice to hear

[vinnywright]

Re: I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

Try if some sounds are not muted. Type alfamixer from the shell or choose a speaker icon in the panel and check out all related sliders.

I think @miKeyBabid was refering to the typo of alfamixer.......and corecting it to ....alsamixer



VINNY

[Prescience]

Re: I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

Everything has the volume set to max except for s/pdif and s/pdif D which have no volume and/or are muted. I don't know if that's the problem, but I can't seem to be able to change them through kmix. I even used settings>configure kmix... to make all of the volume controls visible.

[askrieger]

Re: I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

Take a look at K>"System Settings">Multimedia>"Device Preference" and fool around with the positions of the various choices. Note that I'm assuming that you have more than one choice. Many systems have both a built in sound device on the mother board and a sound card.

[josefko]

Re: I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

Sorry I skipped the first recomended step. Open a terminal and type:

aplay -l

to see, if you have ALSA driver in order. If it fails, you have a bigger problem than muting.
Follow #6 in dibl's how to http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3099811.0

[Prescience]

Re: I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: CA0110 Analog [CA0110 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 1: CA0110 Digital [CA0110 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


None of the choices in system settings work. The sound card is built into the motherboard. There is no second, separate sound card.

I'll check out the link you sent me and see if it can help me get this working

[Prescience]

Re: I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

It seems the sound card may not currently supported by ALSA. Their site is unclear.

"lspci -v" returns:

09:00.0 PCI bridge: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG PCI to PCIe Bridge
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=09, secondary=0a, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=64
Memory behind bridge: feb00000-febfffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: shpchp

0a:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG
Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 0010
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at febfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

On ALSA's list of supported sound cards, most relevant card on their list says the following:

X-Fi Xtreme Audio (PCIe) CA0110 [PCIe] snd-hda-intel; [ ] supported [ ] not supported

[josefko]

Re: I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

X-Fi Xtreme Audio (PCIe)           CA0110            [PCIe] snd-hda-intel; [ ] supported [ ] not supported

I don't understand what it means, I think that neither choise is checked.

I thought, accordingly to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449 that when you listed alsa driver properly, with no error, alsamixer should help. If aplay -l fails, you should get

aplay: device_list:221: no soundcard found...

I was in the same situation after upgrade to Lucid and alsamixer helped me.

[Prescience]

Re: I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

Installing alsamixergui had no effect. Other than that there is no "alsamixer" package besides GNOME's version of alsamixergui

[josefko]

Re: I can't get any sound to work on Kubunt 10.04

I am surprised. There is no need to install anything. You want to say, that when you type alsamixer, the response is something like no program found?