Ubuntu 11.04 no sound
no sound when I try to play a CD or play a sound wave file and
no systems sound like for starting up or anything else. Just no sound at all.
Startup applications include:
Pulse Audio Sound System
Pulse Audio Sound System KDE Routing Policy
my Pulse Audio Volume Control is at Max 100 %
From the KDE menu, Pulse Audio Device Chooser does not start
envy24control does not start
I use a PCI M Audio Audiophile 24/96 sound card
software driver ICE1712
I had to disable the motherboard's on-board sound circuit
in the BIOS to allow the M Audio card to be used.
In Xterm aplay -l says no sound card found
lspci -v says:
05:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at ec00 [size=32]
I/O ports at e880 [size=16]
I/O ports at e800 [size=16]
I/O ports at e480 [size=64]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: snd-ice1712
Has anyone got any idea how I can get sound running ?

you can try to update your ubuntu, maybe that alone will solve the problem..

you might still need an index?

in a terminal as a local user run
report what cards you see pls

if pavucontrol does not give you the correct card at the configuration tab, it can be fixed
but let us know if understood this or my link for debian (not ubuntu but may apply)

http://techpatterns.com/forums/about2179.html

Upgraded to 11.10. Still no sound.
Tried to start envy24control from xterm and got:
ed@ed-System-Product-Name:~$ envy24control
No ICE1712 cards found
My PCI m audio sound card uses the ice1712 driver.
So ubuntu can not see my sound card.
lspci -v
05:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at ec00 [size=32]
I/O ports at e880 [size=16]
I/O ports at e800 [size=16]
I/O ports at e480 [size=64]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: snd-ice1712

aplay -l
ed@ed-System-Product-Name:~$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:240: no soundcards found...
alsamixer -c 0 dosn't work either. alsamixer doesn't like the
command.
I don't know what is going on. This is a multi-OS computer
and in another Linux distro sound is just fine. So, it is not
a hardware problem.
Anyone have any ideas ? Anything would be welcome.

Anyone got any ideas ?

I did a lot of reading and generally mucking around in Ubuntu.
As stated before, I upgraded to 11.10. The GUI in 11.10 is the pits
and no alternatives are given. This new GUI wasted a lot of time,
but I stumbled upon an answer !
As root in xterm : load the software driver.
My PCI M Audio Audiophile 24/96 sound card uses ICE1712
modprobe snd-ice1712
Then use the replacement for alsaconf,
which is a command that must be used by root.
alsactl init
With these two commands in xterm as root, I got sound !
I played an audio CD, and some .wav files. Everything sounds
fine so far. So this problem is SOLVED !