[Tfug] no sound on new Ubuntu system

[Matthew Patenaude]

More input from terminal:

matthew at mnglfiddle:~$ modprobe snd-atiixp
WARNING: Error inserting snd_ac97_bus
(/lib/modules/2.6.15-28-386/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-bus.ko):
Operation not permitted
WARNING: Error inserting snd_ac97_codec
(/lib/modules/2.6.15-28-386/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-codec.ko):
Operation not permitted
FATAL: Error inserting snd_atiixp
(/lib/modules/2.6.15-28-386/kernel/sound/pci/snd-atiixp.ko): Operation not
permitted
matthew at mnglfiddle:~$ sudo modprobe snd-atiixp
matthew at mnglfiddle:~$

The module for my sound card (according to the ALSA site seems to be there,
but not being inserted? Am I misreading this? still nothing is happening
though. I tried killing esd, but still nothing.

Any further ideas?
Matthew


On 2/18/07, Matthew Patenaude <mnglfiddle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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".
> >
> >
> > --
> > --John Gruenenfelder    Research Assistant, UMass Amherst student
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