Sound no longer working in Ubuntu
I'm using Ubuntu (Dapper) with KDE, on a Compaq Presario x1010CA, not sure of sound card model. Sound had been working fine for a couple weeks but spontaneously stopped working the other day. Nothing seems to be muted (including in alsamixer), I've restarted alsa-utils with no success, and restarting the whole computer didn't help either. Running "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp" gives nothing but silence. This affects all sound types as far as I can tell. There are no error messages, just no sound.
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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03) |
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I was under the impression that ubuntu is a type of debian distro. If I'm wrong, chalk it up to being a newbie. Regardless, since from your comment I guess it might have been misleading, I changed the subject on the first post, but I think it's too late to change the thread name.
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after compiling alsa driver and lib an alsa util just run #alsaconf and the sound will work
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Anyway, the instruction that you are getting is to open a terminal prompt and type: sudo alsaconf At least that the way I think Ubuntu does it. |
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bash: alsaconf: command not found |
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sudo aptitude (or apt-get) install alsa-base alsa-utils sudo alsaconf The reason there are so many Debian derivatives: ... so Debian users don't have to answer this kind of questions. |
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Looks like nobody else is coming, so you're stuck with me. You'll have to live with my "high horse." Debian users are determined to help, but we have our own way of discouraging newbies from using Debian. Since you claimed to be a Debian user in the thread title, I naturally looked in.
There is obviously something unusual in your set-up since you say alsa-utils is installed but not alsaconf. alsaconf is part of alsa-utils. I think you are probably going to be forced to reinstall it. But I'm not really familiar with Ubuntu. It's rumored that they're very patient and friendly with newbies over at the Ubuntu forums. A google search turned up this page, http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=138 ...Might be something helpful in there. |
I'm aware of the Ubuntu forums but haven't had any luck from anybody over their either.
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alsaconf must be run as root user.. on my debian system it is located in /usr/sbin
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itg-debian:~# which alsaconf any luck with sudo su - which alsaconf if it locates alsaconf then try and run it... alsaconf That is the tool used to configure asla, if it's not on your system then something is broken and you may want to look at purging the alsa packages and re-installing them. |
Yes, I realise my mistake now with the Debian/Ubuntu terminology. Like I said I thought Ubuntu was a type of Debian and the technical stuff would be mostly the same, but I stand corrected.
Anyway, there is no alsaconf, although sound had been working fine without it for weeks so whatever configuring that had to be done was done somehow. I wasn't doing anything as root when the sound cut out, so I don't think I could have changed the configuration... I do have alsactl but can't figure out if it might be useful or not. |
Ahh There is no alsaconf in Ubuntu, Which would explain why you can't find it.
https://launchpad.net/products/alsa-utils/+bug/29597 Ubuntu removed it stating that it is not necessary. Since Ubuntu doesn't use the same tools as we do to quickly configure Sound I would suggest you start with the Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide in the Ubuntu Forums... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449 best of luck.. nothing more I can do for you. |
Unfortunately the Ubuntu Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide isn't quite as comprehensive as it needs to be, i.e., it didn't fix my problem. Thanks though. It's good to know at least that I'm not crazy for missing alsaconf...
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