Hi, first of all I wold like to apologize for my English, ...I'm learning. I use Ubuntu (5.04)
and I have no sound. I used to have sound in Suse 9.3. It looks like Ubuntu recognizes my sound card which is built in my motherboard, but there is silence. My motherboard is GA- GPNXP DUO. Ubuntu identifies the sound card as 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW(ICH6 Family)Hygh Definition Audio Controler. I get the following error messages related to sound:
-when I try to open “recording level monitor” = cannot connect to the sound , please run esd at a command prompt
-if I type esd and press enter I get = no such file or directory
-if I try to open “volume control” = no control volume elements and/or devices found
I appreciate any help, because I don't think I cannot sort it out by myself!

As root from a teminal type lspci then press enter.
Copy and paste what it says for multimedia

This is the result:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 3e50
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
0000:04:05.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13)
0000:04:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01)

the module your sound card uses is SND_INTEL8X0, i think. Ubuntu should have no problem recognizing that. Have you tried running esd as root?

I've just tried, but I get the same result:
root@ubuntu:/home/george # esd
/dev/dsp: No such file or directory

I had the same problem with my laptop, and I found out I just need to openup alsamixer, and go to "external" option, press m to unmute (it is muted by default). I'm running FC4 though, dunno if this works with ubuntu

I do not think I have alsamixer instaled.I thought you cannot have both, esd and alsamixer installed(maybe I'm wrong). Anyway look what's happening:
root@ubuntu:/home/george # alsamixer

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory
root@ubuntu:/home/george #

I think you would just need alsa-lib alsa-utils
Type
lspci
in a cmd prompt and post the output

Here it is:
george@ubuntu:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 3e50
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
0000:04:05.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13)
0000:04:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01)
george@ubuntu:~$

I used Synaptic and:
-alsa-utils is installed
-I could not finde alsa-lib; what I found was libesd-alsa0;
-I installed libesd-alsa0 (and automatically libesd0 was deleted);
There is no difference yet.No sond.
Please Help!!!

I believe in Ubuntu you have to use sudo to run a "root" command. If so, then have you tried:

sudo modprobe snd_intel8x0m

and then run a mixer program to turn the sound up (as most systems mute the card by default)?

The Intel High Definition Audio controller didn't get kernel support until 2.6.12. Make sure that you're running at least 2.6.12, and have support for 'Intel High Definition Audio' in your kernel. It's easy to find out if you do have kernel support: go to /boot, then read the file that begins with config-<kernel version>. You can type 'uname -r' at a shell prompt to find out what kernel version you're running. You might also be able to look at your kernel configuration in /proc.

If you're sure that you're running kernel 2.6.12 or newer, and that Intel HDA is supported, then make sure that the proper module is loaded:

snd_hda_intel

Do this with the following shell commands:

lsmod | grep intel

If the module isn't loaded, load it, and consider putting it in /etc/modules so it loads on startup next time.

If the module is loaded, check your mixer settings to make sure that nothing is muted.