no sound after nvidia 180 drivers installed.

bigjoe7 · 09-18-2009, 08:32 AM

Hi,

I installed unbuntu 9.04 vanilla last night and noticed that after I had installed Nvidia version 180 drivers my sound stopped working. The sound was definitely working prior to driver installation.

Uninstalled the drivers and after a reboot sound returned. The same issue occurred when installing version 173 driver set. unistalled and rebooted and sound is back.

Obviously I need to have nvidia approved drivers installed.

Hardware.

Nvidia 8500 GT
Motherboard – Asus p5b deluxe
Onboard sound.

adrian@adrian-desktop:~$ aplay -l

Code:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Performed a full update of the OS and the sound still will not work when Nvidia drivers applied.

Any thoughts?

John VV · 09-18-2009, 03:47 PM

seeing as the 180 driver is VERY VERY old
this one is for a gf 8500 -- 32 bit os
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...185.18.36.html

bigjoe7 · 09-18-2009, 06:13 PM

ive installed the nvidia drivers you posted up.
no joy with sound.

I've moved off my on-board sound card (turned off in bios) and onto a audify2 zs. Still no go.

Ive installed the latest alsa drivers also.

Code:

adrian@adrian-desktop:~$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Compiled on Sep 18 2009 for kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (SMP).
adrian@adrian-desktop:~$

and

aplay -l

Code:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Audigy2 [SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350]], device 0: emu10k1 [ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback]
  Subdevices: 31/32
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
  Subdevice #8: subdevice #8
  Subdevice #9: subdevice #9
  Subdevice #10: subdevice #10
  Subdevice #11: subdevice #11
  Subdevice #12: subdevice #12
  Subdevice #13: subdevice #13
  Subdevice #14: subdevice #14
  Subdevice #15: subdevice #15
  Subdevice #16: subdevice #16
  Subdevice #17: subdevice #17
  Subdevice #18: subdevice #18
  Subdevice #19: subdevice #19
  Subdevice #20: subdevice #20
  Subdevice #21: subdevice #21
  Subdevice #22: subdevice #22
  Subdevice #23: subdevice #23
  Subdevice #24: subdevice #24
  Subdevice #25: subdevice #25
  Subdevice #26: subdevice #26
  Subdevice #27: subdevice #27
  Subdevice #28: subdevice #28
  Subdevice #29: subdevice #29
  Subdevice #30: subdevice #30
  Subdevice #31: subdevice #31
card 0: Audigy2 [SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350]], device 2: emu10k1 efx [Multichannel Capture/PT Playback]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 0: Audigy2 [SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350]], device 3: emu10k1 [Multichannel Playback]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Audigy2 [SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350]], device 4: p16v [p16v]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

and again no sound.

If I go back to vanilla 9.04. Sound works.

bigjoe7 · 09-18-2009, 09:52 PM

all sorted.

ripped the card out and swapped it for a spare. All appears working.