I've x-posted this to Ubuntuforums, too.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and have a VIA sound card. I had sound working up until recently when I restarted my computer, then I just had NONE!

I've tried purging and reinstalling alsa to no avail, and I've got this when I do lspci -v

1) what does the access denied bit mean? Do I need access for this to work? How would I do it?

2) If I don't need access, can anybody please help me fix this?

Like I said - I had sound on recently, and it's worked with Gutsy too.

Kernel: 2.6.24-16-386


Big thanks in advance to anybody who can help!

SOLVED WITH sudo apt-get install linux-386

From the driver matrix on the ALSA site, it looks like this is the driver that needs to be loaded for audio to work. http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...dule-hda-intel

Is it loaded?

To find out, from a konsole, as root, run the command 'lsmod | grep snd' ( without the quotes ) and see if you have the alsa stuff loaded. If it is not there, you will have silence.

Use modprobe sounndcore of soundcore is not there, then modprobe nameofdrivertoload to load the driver. Check the mixer, no muting, turn up volume.