[Tfug] no sound on new Ubuntu system

[Matthew Patenaude]

My system recognizes what card it actually is: ATI  IXP SB400. What do you
mean by an Intel 'chipset'? On the sound card itself? or motherboard
controller?

I'll take your advice and go the alsa users list. Thanks.
Matthew

On 2/17/07, John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> >I recently posted a message about buying a new laptop and wondering about
> >32bit linux working with 64bit cpus.
> >
> >I successfully loaded Ubuntu 6.06 and so far everything seems to work...
> >except I have no sound. I have followed several things on Google, but to
> >know success.
> > Here are some terminal results:
> >
> >matthew at mnglfiddle:~$ aplay -l
> >**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> >card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic]
> >  Subdevices: 0/1
> >  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>
> I can't be certain, but I can make a guess as to your situation.  Based on
> the
> "HDA" I'm guessing that you have an Intel "High Definition Audio" chipset.
> That's really just a marketing name... there's not much special about
> it.  My
> laptop also has one.
>
> After following the alsa list for a while I've seen *lots* of questions
> about
> this chipset.  Support is very immature partly due to the fact that there
> are
> tons of variations of it and poor documentation.
>
> If this is indeed what you have I think your best bet is to ask some
> questions
> on the alsa-user mailing list.  But, as you are new to Linux this may be
> difficult as the solution is probably not going to be straightforward.
>
> As for your other question about modprobe.  The command you issued didn't
> work
> because there is no "snd-" module.  That is just the prefix for all of the
> ALSA modules.  For example, I believe the Intel HDA module is
> "snd-hda-intel".
>
>
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