hi
i installed ubuntu, 8.04 few days ago, i have no sound and i tried to follow the commands that i've read in guides through the internet. all that with no successes. i have intel-82801EB/ER (intel8x0), 6 years old philips sound speaker system (2.1) which connected through usb connection to the computer. i have checked the alsa mixer , and everything over there is fine and ran this script:
1)lspci
2) modprobe snd-intel8x0


the first gave me the following output and the second didn't give me anything. do you have advice for me.
thanks

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)
02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] (rev 12)

2.)...

Is that your module? or is it snd_hda_intel?

Check at www.alsa.org

See
#lsmod
#man depmod

<q to quit>

i'm new to linux, so i don't know what is the diffrence. the intel 82801eb is the chipset.
for the depmod -a command i recieved:
FATAL: Could not open /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/modules.dep.temp for writing: Permission denied

and also lsmod give me:
Module Size Used by
ipv6 267780 10
af_packet 23812 2
radeon 124192 2
drm 82452 3 radeon
rfcomm 41744 2
l2cap 25728 13 rfcomm
bluetooth 61156 4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev 10372 0
speedstep_lib 6532 0
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_stats 7104 0
cpufreq_userspace 5284 0
cpufreq_ondemand 9740 0
cpufreq_conservative 8712 0
freq_table 5536 2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
sbs 15112 0
sbshc 7680 1 sbs
container 5632 0
dock 11280 0
video 19856 0
output 4736 1 video
battery 14212 0
iptable_filter 3840 0
ip_tables 14820 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 16132 1 ip_tables
ac 6916 0
sbp2 24072 0
lp 12324 0
evdev 13056 4
snd_usb_audio 83936 1
snd_usb_lib 18432 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_intel8x0 35356 3
snd_ac97_codec 101028 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 3072 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 42144 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
psmouse 40336 0
snd_pcm 78596 4 snd_usb_audio,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
serio_raw 7940 0
snd_seq_dummy 4868 0
snd_seq_oss 35584 0
snd_seq_midi 9376 0
snd_rawmidi 25760 2 snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_midi
parport_pc 36260 1
parport 37832 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
snd_seq_midi_event 8320 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 54224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 24836 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9612 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
iTCO_wdt 13092 0
iTCO_vendor_support 4868 1 iTCO_wdt
button 9232 0
snd 56996 22 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,sn d_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 8800 1 snd
shpchp 34452 0
pci_hotplug 30880 1 shpchp
intel_agp 25492 1
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
agpgart 34760 2 drm,intel_agp
pcspkr 4224 0
ext3 136712 1
jbd 48404 1 ext3
mbcache 9600 1 ext3
loop 18948 2
sg 36880 0
sr_mod 17956 0
sd_mod 30720 3
cdrom 37408 1 sr_mod
usbhid 31872 0
hid 38784 1 usbhid
ata_piix 19588 2
pata_acpi 8320 0
floppy 59588 0
ata_generic 8324 0
libata 159344 3 ata_piix,pata_acpi,ata_generic
scsi_mod 151436 5 sbp2,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
ohci1394 33584 0
ehci_hcd 37900 0
ieee1394 93752 2 sbp2,ohci1394
skge 43536 0
uhci_hcd 27024 0
usbcore 146028 6 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal 16796 0
processor 36872 1 thermal
fan 5636 0
fbcon 42912 0
tileblit 3456 1 fbcon
font 9472 1 fbcon
bitblit 6784 1 fbcon
softcursor 3072 1 bitblit
fuse 50708 7

The modules seem to be loaded.

oops ....the link is www.alsa-project.org

see http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...odule-intel8x0

Just for checking, do

#sudo modprobe snd-intel8x0 ; sudo modprobe snd-pcm-oss ;sudo modprobe snd-mixer-oss ; sudo modprobe snd-seq-oss

#alsamixer

You may need to add options in /etc/....

i used those commands before, and i tried them again. for the first one i don't get any respone(exepct from asking the password) - don't know whether it's good or not.
the alsamixer is loaded - and all everything which should not be muted is muted

can it be because the connection is through usb?

snd_usb_audio is loaded. So either you have a non standard system or the problem is elsewhere.

You can try compiling ALSA from source for your specific card.

use ark to decompress the latest alsa..tar.bz2.
#cd <the folder>
#./configure --help
read it and then provide the correct options
#./configure --with-gnu-ld --with.....

#make
#sudo make install

i installed pulse audio... and with that comes a sound meter where i can see if there is any output for the speakers. i saw that there is so i tried again to play with the configuration of the sound. this time it work (i don't know whether i tried something else or not) and i chose usb in the music/playback events(before when i tried it , it didn't work...)
thanks