MCP51 AC97 on-board sound worked when I installed Ubuntu, then stopped!

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-08-19, john.ennew <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:

> When I run lspci -v I get:

> 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation
> 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: Unknown device 1713
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 4
> I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
> I/O ports at e000 [size=64]
> Memory at ffaff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
> Memory at ffaff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
> Capabilities: <available only to root>

My sound hardware is somewhat different:

0000:00:10.2 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 AC97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
        Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp: Unknown device 8213
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 209
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
        I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
        Memory at fe02c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>


> A popup appears after running them saying a new soundcard has been
> detected and I should set it as default, but when I go to
> System->Preferences, the default sound card box has no options in it
> and running aplay -l still reports no sound device.  I have tried
> restarting as well after running the modprobe commands and running
> gst-register-0.8 as suggested on other sites, but nothing works, I

I haven't tried that but I'll look into it.