No sound after the latest update

[Brendan Strunk]

You may want to try reinstalling Ubuntu 8.04. If you upgraded from an earlier version of Ubuntu and If you have the disc for install that. email me if you have any other problems

> Subject: Re: No sound after the latest update
> From: 4.magarzo at gmail.com
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:31:04 +0200
> 
> El jue, 05-06-2008 a las 10:13 -0700, NoOp escribió:
> > On 06/04/2008 02:26 PM, Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > > 
> > > I am not sure whether this problem happened after a single daily update
> > > or maybe after a automated kernel update, since generally I don't pay
> > > much attention about which updates are running, just let the system to
> > > do it. But the sound went off just after that update.
> > > 
> > > This is a laptop Thinkpad T42 with a 2.6.24-18-generic kernel, Ubuntu
> > > 8.04. 
> > > 
> > > Trying to open the volume control applet (which appears with the
> > > non-operative symbol, e.g. a white cross over a square red background),
> > > it says something similar to this:
> > > 
> > > There were no GStreamer volume control devices found.
> > > "No se han encontrado complementos o dispositivos control de volumen de
> > > GStreamer."
> > > 
> > > On the other hand, if we go to System > Preferences > Sound, and
> > > clicking in the first button ("To try") trying to listen some sound
> > > event, it gives me the following:
> > > 
> > > audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample !
> > > gconfaudiosink: Failed to connect stream: Invalid argument
> > > 
> > > Other buttons give similar warning, and there, just below at the end,
> > > there is no sound device to select!
> > > 
> > > I think this bug:
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/200338
> > > 
> > > and this one:
> > > 
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/200451
> > > 
> > > are saying the same, but those were reported months ago, I don't know
> > > its status or whether they were eventually solved.
> > > 
> > > Is someone able to clear something at this, please?
> > 
> > 
> > I had just the opposite problem; exact same symptoms on a Intel LCH
> > snd_intel8x0 (and same error messages etc) - however it works with
> > 2.6.24-18-generic but not with 2.6.24-18-386. I resolved it by:
> > 
> > sudo apt-get install linux-386
> > 
> Thank you too, you gave me some kind of clue; as a result of your
> comment, I decided to check again some packages... a search with the
> Synaptic Search tool with the string "linux-generic" was enough: there
> wasn't installed the linux-ubuntu-modules package for the current
> kernel. That was the issue.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
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