I just installed ubuntu but their is one major problem.
the card I have in my pc is Hercules Muse Lt, but it only has drivers for windows. because of that I cannot play anny music or video's with my ubuntu. Does anybody know how that can be helped?

What sort of device is this card (sound? video? ethernet?)? What does lspci say about the chipset on the card?

it is a soundcard and this is what my lspci says:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (re v 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Contro ller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (re v 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller ( rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH 5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro]
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 P ro] (Secondary)
0000:02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Control ler (rev 80)
0000:02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 37 8/SATA 378) (rev 02)
0000:02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
0000:02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10 )
0000:02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C /8139C+ (rev 10)

0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH 5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

That's the line that describes the soundcard. It's a very common soundcard. The module that you need is called snd-intel8x0

sudo modprobe snd-intel8x0

Then run alsamixer to set the levels (type m to unmute the channels). Then save the levels with alsactl store

sudo alsactl store

Andy

@Andrew, you are running in a dream life with LFS, Ubuntu doesn't come with alsamixer(I dont think).

Yeah, you shouldn't have any problem with that sound card.