soundcard is not working

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 02 December 2008 10:27, Natalja Stas wrote:
> Got my new laptop last week. Installed Ubuntu 8.10 and discovered that
> my sound ain't working. Its working with vista though. All necessary
> codecs are installed and the appropriate modules are loaded.
> The audio-settings are showing lots of different choices like:
> HDA Intel ALC663 Digital/Analog (ALSA) and (OSS)
> ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
> OSS - Open Sound System
> PulseAudio-Soundserver.
>
> Here is the copy-paste report from the console:
>
> ~$ hwinfo --sound
> 27: PCI 1b.0: 0403 Audio device
>  [Created at pci.310]
>  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_293e
>  Unique ID: u1Nb.1_A02mjACiD
>  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0
>  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1b.0
>  Hardware Class: sound
>  Model: "Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller"
>  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
>  Device: pci 0x293e "82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller"
>  SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
>  SubDevice: pci 0x1893
>  Revision: 0x03
>  Driver: "HDA Intel"
>  Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel"
>  Memory Range: 0xf9ff8000-0xf9ffbfff (rw,non-prefetchable)
>  IRQ: 22 (1661 events)
>  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d0000293Esv00001043sd00001893bc04sc03i00"
>  Driver Info #0:
>    Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
>    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel"
>  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
>
>
> ~$ lsmod | grep snd_hda_intel
> snd_hda_intel         381488  3
> snd_pcm                83204  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
> snd                    63268  15
> snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd
>_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
>
> snd_page_alloc         16136  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
>
>
> If you need any other informations, just let me know.
>
>
> Best regards
> Natalja

Hi Natalja.

Which make/model of laptop is it?

Can you send the output of the following.

cat /proc/asound/cards

It's also worth checking alsamixer controls for any muted ones (M key toggles 
mut/unmute) , or sliders that need pushing up. Master, PCM, Front, CD, are 
obvious ones, if they exist. To see all controls, open alsamixer as below.

alsamixer -D hw:0

Go to link below, and save the script as, alsa-info.sh . Make it executable, 
run it as ./alsa-info.sh , and post back the link to the site where the data 
about your machine, and sounds has been uploaded to.

http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-file/tip/alsa-info.sh

All the best.

Nigel.