I am first time user of Linux. Dont have a great knowledge of code.

My problem is that I have no sound at all, in any application on Ubuntu Studio and also no system sounds.

I also can't get my wireless network to work. My network is configured WPA, tried 'ndiswrapper' thing i found on some other thread but no joy (maybe i did something wrong?)

Priority though is sound. I really want to use ubuntu studio for audio creation!

here is sound output from terminal
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: VT82xx [HDA VIA VT82xx], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Like i said i have no idea of code but saw some other threads and people wanted this.

Ok, let's try the obvious first: is the sound muted? Open up the voulme control and check. Otherwise you can try running (as root) the command alsaconf.

For wireless the first step is to disable the WPA and try to get it working on an open broadcast. Once that's done you can tackle the encryption part.

hey masonm,

have tried alsa mixer nothing muted, front volume up full too.have tried various settings in sound preferences. have tested pipeline, pop up window saying testing with a blue loading bar that stays at 1/4 of the way, i imagine there is supposed to be a whistle or sound at this point?

as for wireless does anyone know how to install ndiswrapper?

i thought google was my friend, but after hours and hours and hours.....

Thanks to you 2 guys for getting back to me on this. didn't know about the google/linux so thanks for that.

I still haven't come across anything that helps me, starting to pull my hair out!

It would seem that a few people have similar problems with the audio and the sound conf of the system but nothing that has helped them has helped me.

I have just reinstalled ubustu in case i had messed up something from terminal, so gonna start fresh (still no sound by the way).

Heres what im running

Ubuntu studio 7.04 "Feisty-fawn" -Release i386

and here is my lspci output from terminal

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Security Device
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:09.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
00:13.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 01d3 (rev a1)
80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)


I really raspect the oul linux but could never use it before 'cause was afraid of all the code! but then linux for human beings comes along and i though hey why not..... Please don't send me back to Mi*****ft!!!!!

I really appreciate anyone who can help

Here's what i did to fix my no sound problem with special thanks to dirty d! he figured it out so i hope this helps somebody somewhere who is goin mental coz the can't create or even listen to music on their newly installed UbuStu.

This works for the intel hda sound card:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto

as for your networking issue install ndiswrapper, add the bcmwl5.inf driver to ndiswrapper and load the module. for WPA encryption you will need wpa_supplicant. I have a howto that might help here on linuxquestions http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=581161

I have a slightly different problem.

My PC has an on-board soundcard (a VIA 8237), plus a separate card (SB Live). It also has a TV card (Brooktree BT878).

I did have sound at first, but it seems to have stopped working. I suspect it is trying to use the on-board card rather than the SB Live - which is the one which has the speakers plugged in.

KinfoCenter shows them listed as:

Audio Devices:
0: VIA 8237 (Duplex)
1: Bt87x Digital
2: CA0106 (Duplex)


How do I force it to use the right one please, i.e. the CA0106?

I have selected that one in Kmix, but it still doesn't have any sound. Also, it doesn't remember that setting when I reboot.

Any ideas please?

is your onboard sound disabled in the bios? sometimes that can conflict.

I followed the HowTo and reinstalled Alsa.

I ran alsaconf and set the sound levels. I also ensured it is not muted.

All looks fine - except no sound

I will check in the Bios next.

Edit - the onboard card is definitely disabled in the Bios.

Not sure what it means but following from the post above, I ran aplay -l to give this:

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 0: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 1: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 2: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 3: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


and then lspci to give this:

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation uPD72874 IEEE1394 OHCI 1.1 3-port PHY-Link Ctrlr (rev 01)
00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
00:13.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
00:13.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7800 GS] (rev a2)


Both of them list the correct card - the Creative Labs SB Audigy LS.

Kmix says I am using the correct card. Still no sound though.

If it helps, lsmod | grep snd gives this:

lsmod | grep snd
snd_rtctimer 4768 0
snd_ca0106 35488 1
snd_ac97_codec 101028 1 snd_ca0106
snd_pcm_oss 44672 0
snd_mixer_oss 17792 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 81028 3 snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss 35072 0
snd_seq_midi 9728 0
snd_rawmidi 25984 2 snd_ca0106,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8576 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 54000 5 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 24196 3 snd_rtctimer,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9612 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 56324 13 snd_rtctimer,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd _seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 8672 1 snd
ac97_bus 3456 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_page_alloc 11272 2 snd_ca0106,snd_pcm


I see ca0106 which is correct. So why, oh why, is it not working please?

Try the EMU10K1 driver module instead of the one that is loading.