Sound Card troubles Ubuntu 5.10 AC 97

Mickey1 · 01-25-2006, 04:19 PM

Ello all

I finally managed to get Ubuntu to work
Everything so far runs smooth
EXCEPT my sound card

My sound card is a AC 97
I believe the manufacturer is RealTek

I'm fairly new to linux so if there is anyone that can give me th explanation on how to get this to work in laymans terms that would be appreciated

Totem says it can't stream
xmms plays it fine but no sound
Any help would be appreciated

Many thanks in advance,

Mick

YellowFin · 01-26-2006, 12:14 AM

you get no sound at all?

if you go to system settings >> sound and mutimedia >> hardware tab, use "auto detect" apply settings, then under general tab use test sound (at the bottom) test midi wont work unless u have a midi device attached,,which it seems u dont.

is there any other error messages??

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rylan76 · 01-26-2006, 12:22 AM

What happens if you go into a terminal and type

alsamixer

?

danhm · 01-26-2006, 12:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rylan76

What happens if you go into a terminal and type

alsamixer

?

Make sure "master" and "pcm" are turned up.

If nothing happens when you type alsamixer, type "sudo apt-get install alsa-base" (without the quotes, of course) and then try again.

Mickey1 · 01-26-2006, 07:54 AM

0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

Alsamixer has Master and PCM at 100
Still no sound

Mickey1 · 01-26-2006, 11:26 AM

snd_intel8x0 30144 0
snd_ac97_codec 72188 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 46368 0
snd_mixer_oss 16128 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 78344 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 21764 1 snd_pcm
snd 48644 6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9184 1 snd

part of when i typed lsmod
AC 97 would be my soundcard

cheers

rylan76 · 01-27-2006, 03:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mickey1

snd_intel8x0 30144 0
snd_ac97_codec 72188 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 46368 0
snd_mixer_oss 16128 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 78344 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 21764 1 snd_pcm
snd 48644 6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9184 1 snd

part of when i typed lsmod
AC 97 would be my soundcard

cheers

Sheesh - it looks as if it should work. Are you sure you got earphones or something plugged into the correct jack? Sure the hardware is OK and not busted maybe?

Mickey1 · 01-27-2006, 07:35 AM

It appears to be busted :-(
Booted into windows to try it and still didn't work

So weird as up till 2 days ago before i installed ubuntu it worked fine under winblows

Ah well... not the biggest loss in the world

Thanks for this

Mickey1 · 01-27-2006, 08:16 AM

It's NOT busted
Came to find that 1 wire inside the box was a little lose
This happened when i took gfx card out which will be my next issue
My gfx card prevents Ubuntu from booting up as it makes ubuntu freeze on the hotplug subsystem

anywho
sound is fixed
thanks for all the input
and sorry for being a dumbass