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hi, i've installed Ubuntu Linux Horay hedghog edition on my computer. it runs perfictally except the sound doesn't work. i've looked all over the forums and found some stuff but none of it worked. anyway, heres my delema, i can't get the sound driver to work, i've tryed ALSA and OSS and each time i restart the sound system i come up with a different error, so heres the error messages

OSS:
Error while instalizing the sound driver:

device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)

The sound server will continue, using the null output devise

ALSA:
Error while instalizing the sound driver:

devise: default can't be opened for playback (no such file or directory)

The sound server will continue using the null output device.

as i said before, i've looked all over the forums but haven't been able to find anything. here is my entire lsmod output incase you need it.

Module Size Used by
fglrx 229568 0
proc_intf 4100 0
freq_table 4100 0
cpufreq_userspace 4572 0
cpufreq_ondemand 6172 0
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
video 16260 0
sony_acpi 6280 0
pcc_acpi 11264 0
button 6800 0
battery 10244 0
container 4608 0
ac 4996 0
ipv6 229504 11
af_packet 20744 2
e100 32384 0
mii 4736 1 e100
acx_pci 134816 0
i2c_i801 8076 0
i2c_core 21264 1 i2c_i801
piix 9988 1
usblp 12032 0
ehci_hcd 29444 0
uhci_hcd 30224 0
usbcore 107512 4 usblp,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
pciehp 83948 0
shpchp 86116 0
pci_hotplug 30512 2 pciehp,shpchp
intel_agp 20636 1
agpgart 31784 1 intel_agp
floppy 54864 0
pcspkr 3816 0
rtc 12216 0
md 43856 0
dm_mod 53116 1
capability 5000 0
commoncap 7808 1 capability
tsdev 7488 0
evdev 9088 0
psmouse 19336 0
mousedev 11160 1
parport_pc 34372 1
lp 10792 0
parport 33480 2 parport_pc,lp
ide_generic 1664 0
ide_disk 18176 0
ide_cd 38532 0
ide_core 118988 4 piix,ide_generic,ide_disk,ide_cd
cdrom 36508 1 ide_cd
ext3 120968 1
jbd 54168 1 ext3
sd_mod 16784 3
ata_piix 8836 9
libata 44548 1 ata_piix
scsi_mod 119936 2 sd_mod,libata
unix 26164 582
thermal 13576 0
processor 22708 1 thermal
fan 4612 0
fbcon 34048 0
font 8448 1 fbcon
bitblit 5120 1 fbcon
vesafb 6948 0
cfbcopyarea 3968 1 vesafb
cfbimgblt 3072 1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 3584 1 vesafb

your help is greatly appriciated

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Member Avatar for TKSS

Go to www.alsa-project.org. Click on 'SoundCard' links, select your manufacturer (Creative or whatever), and then find your card. When you find your card, you'll see a link to details on how to set things up. The downloads are available at alsa-project's home page, and the alsa-users mailing list (accessible at the home page, too) is quite useful.

Member Avatar for sirbats

Hi Iseek,

You have to tell us your hard-ware specification (in this case, sound-card) you can find it by typing command in terminal : lspci.

Member Avatar for aptiaa

Hi, I am completely new to linux.

I recenlty installed Ubuntu inside VMWare 6. The sound worked and it used drivers called ES1371. My real soundcard is an X Fi elite pro. But the sound came out perfectly...

Now I installed Ubuntu in a dual boot with Vista.

I am not getting any sound and Ubuntu doesn't detect any soundcard.

Is there anything I can do to make the sound work, I know it works since inside VMWare it did...

Thanks

Member Avatar for lubkin

Oh -- I should mention -- my sound card is:

nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)

Member Avatar for crunchie

Oh -- I should mention -- my sound card is:

nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)

????

Member Avatar for lubkin

I don't understand; where am I supposed to go; what am I supposed to do? I think I need some sort of driver for Ubuntu 9.04, Acer computer, for the nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2) card -- at least, that's what lcpci says is my soundcard.

Again, help greatly appreciated.

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Go to www.alsa-project.org. Click on 'SoundCard' links, select your manufacturer (Creative or whatever), and then find your card. When you find your card, you'll see a link to details on how to set things up. The downloads are available at alsa-project's home page, and the alsa-users mailing list (accessible at the home page, too) is quite useful.

Hi Crunchie!

Thanks for your post -- but unfortunately a driver for my soundcard -- nVidia Corportation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2) was not one of the cards on their download list for linux (Ubuntu 9.04 in my case).

Help would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks,

-- Saul

Member Avatar for ibel08

hai, i hv installed ubuntu 9.04 and i hv a problem with audio.... no sound is coming.... my sound card is

00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)

can anyone tell me wt to do..........

Member Avatar for wirewrangler

I believe I am responding to the person with the acer aspire with a nvidia card in it running 9.04. This worked for some folks over at ubuntuforums.org. I think they had Realtek cards.

The following may work anyway, and can be undone by merely opening the file again and deleting the lines added if not. They are easily found due to being at the end.

Reboot after each change to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

Run the following command in Terminal

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

Add these 2 lines to the end of the alsa-base.conf file:

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=auto

If those alsa-base.conf options don't work:

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=acer-aspi

On my sony vaio I needed the last line to be

options snd-hda-intel model=sony-assamd

Member Avatar for techbabu

hi, i've installed Ubuntu Linux Horay hedghog edition on my computer. it runs perfictally except the sound doesn't work. i've looked all over the forums and found some stuff but none of it worked. anyway, heres my delema, i can't get the sound driver to work, i've tryed ALSA and OSS and each time i restart the sound system i come up with a different error, so heres the error messages

OSS:
Error while instalizing the sound driver:

device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)

The sound server will continue, using the null output devise

ALSA:
Error while instalizing the sound driver:

devise: default can't be opened for playback (no such file or directory)

The sound server will continue using the null output device.

as i said before, i've looked all over the forums but haven't been able to find anything. here is my entire lsmod output incase you need it.

Module Size Used by
fglrx 229568 0
proc_intf 4100 0
freq_table 4100 0
cpufreq_userspace 4572 0
cpufreq_ondemand 6172 0
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
video 16260 0
sony_acpi 6280 0
pcc_acpi 11264 0
button 6800 0
battery 10244 0
container 4608 0
ac 4996 0
ipv6 229504 11
af_packet 20744 2
e100 32384 0
mii 4736 1 e100
acx_pci 134816 0
i2c_i801 8076 0
i2c_core 21264 1 i2c_i801
piix 9988 1
usblp 12032 0
ehci_hcd 29444 0
uhci_hcd 30224 0
usbcore 107512 4 usblp,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
pciehp 83948 0
shpchp 86116 0
pci_hotplug 30512 2 pciehp,shpchp
intel_agp 20636 1
agpgart 31784 1 intel_agp
floppy 54864 0
pcspkr 3816 0
rtc 12216 0
md 43856 0
dm_mod 53116 1
capability 5000 0
commoncap 7808 1 capability
tsdev 7488 0
evdev 9088 0
psmouse 19336 0
mousedev 11160 1
parport_pc 34372 1
lp 10792 0
parport 33480 2 parport_pc,lp
ide_generic 1664 0
ide_disk 18176 0
ide_cd 38532 0
ide_core 118988 4 piix,ide_generic,ide_disk,ide_cd
cdrom 36508 1 ide_cd
ext3 120968 1
jbd 54168 1 ext3
sd_mod 16784 3
ata_piix 8836 9
libata 44548 1 ata_piix
scsi_mod 119936 2 sd_mod,libata
unix 26164 582
thermal 13576 0
processor 22708 1 thermal
fan 4612 0
fbcon 34048 0
font 8448 1 fbcon
bitblit 5120 1 fbcon
vesafb 6948 0
cfbcopyarea 3968 1 vesafb
cfbimgblt 3072 1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 3584 1 vesafb

your help is greatly appriciated

Hi did you try this.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting

Member Avatar for Crash~Override

try enabling ubuntu restricted-backports. And than update your alsa sound driver

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haan...bhapea...ki haal aa tere:)

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