Enabling sound

[Daniel Carrera]

Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> I'm feeling totally stupid right now, because I have been unable
> to get sound working, either through the computer's speakers or through 
> a headset. (Both work fine under Windows.) The volume control is not 
> muted, and it's set to a reasonable level. Is there some other control I 
> need to change?

Sound should "just work", so I suspect a problem with Ubuntu. I don't 
have a solution, but I can think of some things that might at least give 
us more information:

* Open a terminal and run gstreamer-properties then click on Test. Let's 
try to get that test sound working first. The default is "autodetect" 
which should work, but you can try one of the other options to see if 
they make any difference.

* I doubt that the problem is with volume, but run gnome-volume-control 
just in case.

* Go to System -> Administration -> Device Manager. Try to find your 
sound card. On my system it says "Sound Controller". AFAIK it doesn't 
matter what it is as long as Ubuntu knows that it's there.

> And while we're on the subject of sound, how do I test whether the 
> microphone input is working? I don't want to record from the mic, I just 
> want it for using with services like Skype.

Don't know :(

I'll think about this once we get sound working.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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