Ubuntu can't find sound card

[Mathieu Avoine]

Hi Fern,

Don't worry about "not doing this right", you knocked at the right door ;)
I will try to help you the best I can, however it may require a few
emails to get your soundcard up and running.

First of all, did you try the following command?
sudo modprobe nm256_audio

If you did, you may want to check in the Synaptic Package Manager for a
package named "alsa" (for more info on Synaptic PM, visit the following link
: https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/synaptic.html).

Hope this helps. Feel free to ask more questions if the solutions above
don't fix your issue.

Cheers,
Math

On 9/1/06, Fern Marques <fern.marques at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> New to this, sorry if I am not doing this right.
>
> Just installed Ubuntu.  Tried in two desktops, all fine.  In three
> laptops (two DELL, one HP), Ubuntu claims can't find sound card.
>
> However, lspci|grep audio in the Terminal returns the name of my sound
> card all right.  It tells me:
>
> 0000:01:00.1 Multimedia audio controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200
> [MagicMedia 256AV Audio] (rev 20)
>
> I tried many possible variations with "sudo modprobe and-xxxxxxx", where
> xxxxxxx is the name of my sound card, but none worked.
>
> Of course I have searched the net all I could, saw a number of
> "solutions", none worked.
>
> When I install XP in the same systems it doesn't have any problems
> finding the audio card.
>
> When I look at the system Device Manager, the card is listed there, too.
>
> But the "multimedia" applications say "can't connect to sound server, or
> something to that effect.
>
> Do you fellows have any idea where I should go to get some info on how
> to troubleshoot this?
>
> Please note I am no hacker, just a Windows user trying to convince
> myself that Linux is worth the effort.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Fern
>
>
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