Sound problem on Hardy

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 02 December 2008 18:53, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> I have a laptop using the Intel 80281DB sound chip. I've installed Kubuntu
> Hardy on it and have no sound at all. I've been to alsamixer and checked
> the sound levels. I also found the threads that said to turn on the
> external amplifier and then turn it off. The only way I found to do this
> was to go to alsamixer, turn on the external switch, then "alsactl store
> 0", then go to alsamixer, turn the switch off, then again "alactl store 0".
> I still have no sound.
>
> Can anyone offer me any help with this?

Hi Michael.

What is the make/model of your laptop? Is this a very new model of laptop?

The soundcard is obviously being detected, as otherwise you'd have no access 
to alsamixer.

A bit of info please as below.

cat /proc/asound/version
cat /proc/asound/cards
lspci -vn           (just the bit for the soundcard)
lsmod | grep snd
grep ^Codec /proc/asound/card?/codec*    (you may get no output from this)

You could also save the script from the link below as, alsa-info.sh, then make 
it executable, and run it as ./alsa-info.sh.  Post back the link to the 
website where the data has been uploaded to. This can be valuable info for 
the alsa developers if your machine is very new, and not yet supported.

http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-file/tip/alsa-info.sh

All the best.

Nigel.