Problems With Sound

[Andrew Jarrett]

On Nov 5, 2007 4:17 AM, Graham <grahamtodd2 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I am running Gutsy and I have a problem with obtaining any sound.
>
> When the current box I am using was a WinXP machine I stopped getting
> sound through the headphones.  Looking inside I think there is a loose
> connection.  My wife had good things to say about the Creative Labs
> Soundblaster MP3+ (Model S80270), so I thought I'd try it.
>
> Its a little box which resides externally to the computer and plugs in
> to the usb port.  A picture is here:
>
> http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=207&product=154
>
> When plugged in I can hear clicks and pops as something is working, but
> no music - not even the welcome tone.  I have rebooted with the audi
> box installed and got KMix to show it, selected that but no sound.
>
> I get sound through the earphones on my Mac iBook, so the earphones are
> not at fault, and I've tried a variety of earphones to see if there's
> any compatibility problems. With all of them there is no sound on the
> Kubuntu box, but sound on other things.
>
> I presume its a driver problem but I can find nowhere to go to.  Any
> help would be appreciated!
>
> --
>
> Graham Todd

Perhaps your sound is turned down *really* low?  I had a problem with
Gutsy's sound and then realized that the volume was very very low (at
max volume I could barely hear anything).  Try running "alsamixer"
from the command prompt and play around in there (turn up the volume
and unmute channels).  "OO" means the channel is unmuted and "MM"
means the channel is muted.

HTH,
Andrew

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