Hi, I had a previous post in Linux newbies but got no help so I'm trying here. Here is the info from the old post:


"I have an Asus P5Q SE Plus board with an Intel ICH10 onboard audio chipset that does not want to produce any sound whatsoever in Ubuntu... It works just fine on my doal boot in Windows however. I've been searching everywhere but just can't figure out what the problem is; I'm alright with computers but am a Linux newb, any help would be appreciated.

PS:
1. I've already checked in alsamixer that the volumes are up,
2. I've tried killing PulseAudio,
3. I've gone into the sound prefrences to try different settings, there is no sound in any of the modes when testing
4. this user account is enabled to use audio devices."



I've been reading around a bit and thought that maybe recompiling the alsa drivers using module assistant might work, I ran these commands in this order:

sudo apt-get install module-assistant
sudo m-a update
sudo m-a prepare
sudo m-a a-i alsa

However, when I run sudo m-a a-i alsa and it says Building alsa-source, step 1; it gets to about 50% and then states Build of the package alsa-source failed!

Looking at the log, the end looks like this:

/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/info.c: In function ▒
│ ‘resize_info_buffer’: ▒
│ /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/info.c:90: error: implicit declaration of function ‘PAGE_ALIGN’▒
│ make[5]: *** [/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/info.o] Error 1 ▒
│ make[4]: *** [/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore] Error 2 ▒
│ make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver] Error 2 ▒
│ make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-9-generic' ▒
│ make[2]: *** [compile] Error 2 ▒
│ make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver' ▒
│ make[1]: *** [build-stamp] Error 2 ▒
│ make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver' ▮
│ make: *** [kdist_image] Error 2

I really have no idea what I'm doing here, but am very dissapointed my sound is narfed... any help would be appreciated...

I don't use Ubuntu but since nobody replied to you I've searched a little and found this and this that might be helpful to you.
Those errors with alsa-source usually mean that you are missing some packages,so read what's on the links above and post back.

Hey thanks a lot... I tried that but I actually just realized that this is entirely my ignorance at play... the mobo has a 5.1 output and the speakers were set to what I thought would be the logical output: "Front Speakers"... this works for Windows just fine, but for some reason Ubuntu's default output is to the "Back" speakers. Now that I've got that fixed my sounds working again and that's really what I was going for.

Thanks though...

I'm really glad that you did it.