Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide

[ocramavaf]

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: VT82xx [HDA VIA VT82xx], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: VT82xx [HDA VIA VT82xx], device 1: Conexant Digital [Conexant Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

my sound card is recognized but its not playing anything i followed every step in the guide and i still get nothing, the sound disappeared when i used a fedora live cd, after that it stopped and i dont know how to bring it back.

[_BlondieGirl_]

How can I set the sound that is played from my soundcar, as my default capture device?

I can't even record sound from my mic.

I have a HDA Intel, usim alsamixer.

[ptoye]

Firstly, thanks for a very good guide to sound problems. But it doesn't seem to have been updated for over a year, since when Ubuntu has moved on a bit. So I tried clicking on the new home link at the top.

But this gives me "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete." Is there a problem with a server somewhere? I have cookies enabled, by the way.

[modokalle]

I have the via82xx, and everything is a success - except that there is no sound. The meters surely moves in, for example Amarok, but there is no sound at all. Do I have to do all the kernel stuff, or will that not help me?

[yoghurt]

This thread helped me to solve my problems...well...from the beginning though:
I've got 2 sound cards, the on-board one (snd_hda_intel) and SB Live24 (snd_usb_audio). I used to have the on-board card deactivated in bios and when I installed Ubuntu on my new machine couple of months ago I had no sound - for some reason some alsa parts were missing and I didn't find any OSS sound solving threads.

Anyway, I re-activated the on-board card, reinstalled Ubuntu and while I still had no sound from my usb sound card, alsa (and all alsamixer etc...) was installed perfectly. I then managed with the help of this guide edit the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.

There is but one remark I have though - it might have changed in the recent versions of alsa, but there is a section in this file that maps all devices to index "-2" to prevent weird driver from stealing "0".

When I commented the line that jailed my usbaudio to -2 I suddenly heard the nice welcome sound from Ubuntu. THUMBS UP!

[Paingiver]

Pardon me if this was posted before in this thread.
It is explaining and solving so many sound problems.Here's the link:
http://linuxtechie.wordpress.com/200...work-in-gutsy/

[alfirin]

great guide! it worked fine by me although I can't record any sound. I haven't figured out how to use sound capture with my headset

[ptoye]

I've tried going to the Comprehensive_Sound_Problems_Solutions_Guide link, but all I get is what's below (and cookies are enabled). Do you have a problem on the gwos web site?

Firefox output:


The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

* This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies.

[mikael_b]

I followed the guide but it won't work and everything seems to be installed:

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: Conexant Digital [Conexant Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Any suggestions?

[Paingiver]

After installing the backport modules,
Edit "/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base" by adding to the bottom of file
"options snd-hda-intel model=your model"

In the place of "your model" write something corresponds to your model.For example for some toshiba laptops it must be "asus" .

And for ALC861VD/660VD chipset:

3stack 3-jack

3stack-dig 3-jack with SPDIF OUT

6stack-dig 6-jack with SPDIF OUT

3stack-660 3-jack (for ALC660VD)

3stack-660-digout 3-jack with SPDIF OUT (for ALC660VD)[

lenovo Lenovo 3000 C200

dallas Dallas laptops

hp HP TX1000

auto auto-config reading BIOS (default)

Check this page too,but dont do the compiling part(look at my previous link):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto