Sound problem in Kubuntu 8.10

[Martin Laberge]

On Thursday 23 October 2008 11:08:29 Bas Roufs wrote:
> Dear everybody
> 
> Already for more than 1 year I have been trying to access my sound
> card in my PC - first via Kubuntu 7.10, today via Kubuntu 8.10. But
> still no sound at all!
> I have tried to follow the instructions at this page:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449
> This is the so-called 'Comprehensive sound check Problem Solutions Guide'.
> 
> At the Windows partition, the sound works OK - so there is no hardware
> problem. Moreover, Linux does recognise my sound card. The terminal
> command lspci -v delivers -amongst others!- the following result:
> (....)
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
> Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2a28
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
>         Memory at ffa3c000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>         Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
>         Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
> 
> 
> (....)
> 
> Here I see the first strange thing:
> " Capabilities: <access denied>".
> 
> Could this (partly) explain the problem I am dealing with?
> 
> Via this page:
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-intel8x0
> ... I found out that needed to install the driver 'intel8x0'.
> I have done in the ways suggested by the '.... Solutions Guide'....
> 
> Can anyone  give me a clue what to do next?
> 
> Thanks for your repy.
> 
> Bas Roufs.
> 

1- Did you unmute the sound?   
the sound is muted at install time.
go to your kmixer, and be sure the volume levels are ok and unmuted.

2- Do the mixer SEE a intel card as the first sound card? 
(on top right corner of kmixer)

3- do the module   snd_intel8x0   is loaded ?
(lsmod | grep snd ) 
(it should be automatically loaded at boot time)

4- did you configure the sound card in kde ?
(in kde-system-settings / sound )


these steps should assure you to detect what was the problem,
and solve it. Just make sure to answer YES to the 4 questions.



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