Okay, so I just installed Ubunto 5.10 "Breezy" last night. All went relatively smoothly, minus a couple snags.

Here's the basics: No sound whatsoever - not on login, no events, music, nothing. Interestingly, I *had* sound very briefly. Basically, when I first setup ubuntu, I chose too high of a display resolution and when xserver started the monitor blanked out. Well, I tried rebooting and doing all sorts of tricky stuff. During this period of random "enter"ing, I got error beeps (sounded very "african" in nature?). Then somehow I got a very long, drawn out, but pleasing sound that I assumed was a login sound (no video, remember).

Eventually I remembered I could cycle resolutions with Ctrl+Alt+"+" or "-", so that worked out. But after a reboot I lost my sound! I don't know what I did, but it's definately broken...

I've followed the steps on several wiki.ubuntu entries, and followed the Sound troubleshooting HowTo, to no avail. Volume up, speakers on, Sound device enabled in Selector, and I've tried ALSA, ESD, and OSS. Added those few lines to my /etc/esd.conf (IIRC), nothing.

One thing I might add is that my system has 2 sound cards: The generic onboard audio (nForce chipset) that I'm NOT using, and a PCI Creative SB Live! card, which is the one I'm using. It shows up in Device Manager under the nForce PCI controller sub-listing, so the system sees it I think...

I checked in the BIOS to make sure the mobo's onboard sound was disabled - it was. Just for fun I re-enabled the onboard audio in BIOS to see if ubuntu would pick it up. It did apparently, because in the System > Pref (or admin?) > Sound dialog I could choose "nForce audio" from the device drop-down. I switched to that one and tried to get some sound out of it, but couldn't still. I checked the levels in alsamixer again and tested the sources in Multimedia Selector, but nothing worked.

Any help out there? Thanks!

Jesse

Make sure you have alsa installed. I think you need alsa-base and alsa-utils. Then try alsaconf. For Soundblaster live I think you need snd-emu10k or maybe snd-ca0106 module installed. Lets see the output of lsmod.

I get no sound in Kubuntu 5.10 when I come out of hibernate on my laptop. All I get is a hiss that doesn't change with the volume. I can't hear it with the speakers, but with the headphones it's very noticeable. The only thing I can do is turn the hiss off and on by toggling "External Amplifier" in the mixer under "Switches." Interestingly, when I suspend-to-RAM and come back, the sound is back! Are you experiencing any of these symptoms? Maybe we have the same problem. Kubuntu registers my modem as a sound card, so it's as if I have two sound cards, so that might be it.

Any luck I have kubuntu 5.1 with no sound working either, I have a ac97 compatable card. alsaconf does not work on kubunut

post the output of that should tell us if the correct modules are installed

The solution for me was found on linux.iuplog.com/?item=94639