I've looked at numerous threads related to lost audio and tried serveral solutions without success. Here' my situation. I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 on a Dell Dimension 2300. I had audio until a week or so ago, then lost it, for unknown reasons. According to the Dell specs, the audio is an integrated ADI 1885 Audio. The audio was working from the start of installing Linux (Mandrake, Mandriva, now Ubuntu) and I paid no attention to how it was configured. When I lost the audio and searched for solutions, I found and installed Alsamixer. That fixed nothing but then I may not have it configured correctly. I've thought about installing a new sound card. What do you think? Is it worth a try or is there a setup solution somewhere? And what sound card is sure to work under Ubuntu?
I don't see an Integrated ADI 1885 Audio in any of the shell searches. Here's what I get:
$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel 82801DB-ICH4]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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