Ubuntu can't find sound card

[Mathieu Avoine]

Hi Fern,

Sorry for the late reply, I was out for the weekend.
Can you run the following command and send me the output?

lsmod | grep snd

I don't know why it can't find the module nm256_audio... Which version of
Ubuntu are you on, Breezy or LTS (Dapper)?

Math

On 9/2/06, Fern Marques <fernmarques at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, Mathieu
>
> A few more bits of new knowledge.
>
> I found the Debian archives, I think.  I even found lists of the alsa
> "packages", and one of them may contain something I need to make this
> particular sound card work.
>
> The "packages", however, are all related to version of the "kernel", I
> think.  I have a vague notion of what the kernel is, but no idea on which
> one I have, or what package to download, or, worse, what to do with it even
> if I get it...
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Fern
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mathieu Avoine <avoinemt at gmail.com>
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 1, 2006 2:14:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu can't find sound card
>
> 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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