onboard sound not working.

sdmike6 · 03-27-2006, 09:39 PM

I have a gateway m320 laptop running Kubuntu Breezy and the newest version of KDE. What do I need to do to get my sound card to start working?

just some extra info KMix says this:Sound drivers supported: ALSA + OSS
Sound drivers used: ALSA

and it says my audio chipset is intel 82801DB-ICH4.

juanbobo · 03-27-2006, 09:47 PM

Have you check if the sound is muted?

rickh · 03-27-2006, 09:51 PM

Did you run # alsaconf

sdmike6 · 03-28-2006, 01:07 AM

The sound is not muted and I can not seem to run alsaconf.

whk · 03-28-2006, 11:42 AM

try locate alsaconf i.e.
$
/usr/sbin/alsaconf

btw see lspci -v and copy/paste audio soundcard
(toget the driver id) i.e. A97

lsmod is where your sound driver/utilities are installed

if alsaconf does not work then you might need to install alsa from scratch.

whk · 03-28-2006, 12:11 PM

Check here if your soundcard is compatible.
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/

btw alsaconf needs to be in root.

sdmike6 · 03-31-2006, 03:09 AM

I finally got it to work. I had all of the alsa packages except for libasound2-dev. Once I got it and updated everything the sound came on.