Ubuntu 6.11 sound problems

BenMorton · 15 Feb 2007 at 19:25

I've just installed Ubuntu 6.11 for the first time and I'm trying to set things up and so far things are going ok but I can't get my sound to work I looked in device manager and it lists my soundcard and I've checked alsamixer to see if anything is muted but things seem fine. My Sound card is a Creative Audigy 2 ZS

fumbles · 16 Feb 2007 at 00:05

In a terminal type:

$ sudo lspci

and

$ sudo lsmod| grep snd

And paste that in here.

BenMorton · 17 Feb 2007 at 14:04

Ok hope this helps...

$ sudo lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] (Secondary)
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
02:07.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 04)
02:07.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)

$ sudo lsmod| grep snd

snd_emu10k1_synth 8960 0
snd_emux_synth 39296 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 8576 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 8192 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_dummy 4996 0
snd_seq_oss 36480 0
snd_seq_midi 9984 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8960 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 59120 9 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_emu10k1 128288 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi 27264 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_device 9868 8 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_util_mem 6016 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 10756 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_intel8x0 34844 1
snd_ac97_codec 97696 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 3456 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 47360 0
snd_mixer_oss 19584 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 84612 4 snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25348 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd 58372 16 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 11232 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 11400 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

fumbles · 18 Feb 2007 at 22:01

Well we know its detecting your sound card.

Code:

02:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
02:07.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 04)
02:07.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)

By that.

Tried running ALSA config?

$ sudo alsaconf
Make sure you have alsa installed (like all of it, alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-oss, etc).

BenMorton · 18 Feb 2007 at 22:42

$ sudo alsaconf <-- will that command install it all?

fumbles · 19 Feb 2007 at 02:48

BenMorton said:
$ sudo alsaconf <-- will that command install it all?

That will set up alsa...
You need to use apt-get install, or synaptic to get the other stuff.

*note: Personally I dont use Ubuntu, but they are all the same

BenMorton · 19 Feb 2007 at 14:57

I tried the command "$ sudo alsaconf" but it said command not known or something. Next I loaded synaptic and installed the other stuff but that didn't appear to do anything and then I install GNOME ALSA Mixer and found when I ran this program it seemed to have detected my motherboard soundcard so I plugged my speakers into motherboard and the sound works but I still would like it to work on my proper soundcard.

fumbles · 20 Feb 2007 at 02:54

alsaconf should be part of the alsa-utils package, so try running it again.
Then run your favourite mixer programme to unmute everything.

$ sudo alsactl store

or add alsa to the bottom of /etc/rc.conf, they will do the same thing.

[EDIT] Apparently the good people at Ubuntu removed alsaconf from alsa-utils starting from Breezy (5.10).... BUT you can download a alsa-utils from here

http://seveas.ubuntulinux.nl/~dennis/alsa-utils_1.0.11-6ubuntu2seveas1_i386.deb

This version has alsaconf in it. Just remember to remove the one you have installed now.

$ sudo debpkg -i http://seveas.ubuntulinux.nl/~dennis/alsa-utils_1.0.11-6ubuntu2seveas1_i386.deb

Or alternatively if you want to do it the more "proper" way:

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-do...Blaster+Live+5.1.&chip=emu10k1&module=emu10k1

Lt. Manlove · 20 Feb 2007 at 11:06

Do you have any webcams installed? Might sound silly by your Linux distro might think your webcam is a speaker (if it has a built in microphone for example) and be trying to output to that. Double check your ALSA.