No sound after, uncomplete?, upgrade

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:32:10 -0400, Juan wrote:

> El 16/10/11 10:21, Colin Law escribió:
>> On 16 October 2011 02:29, Juan<molaxp at aol.com>  wrote:
>>> Hello again.
>>>
>>> After a failed attempt to upgrade my system to 11.10 yesterday the PC
>>> has no sound. This time no sound hardware is found.
>>>
>>> The upgrade failed because someone had the great idea of putting a
>>> license agreement into a window with no way to set focus to it while
>>> the upgrade GUI with terminal enabled was in.
>> In a terminal try
>> sudo dpkg --configure -a
>> then
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>>
>> Colin
>>
> I did it yet without drastical changes.

Well the system should now be at least properly upgraded.

If you have a live CD of 11.10 you could test if maybe the problem has 
something to do with the initial failed upgrade.

The good news is that you previously had sound so ALSA should support 
your sound hardware.

I'm using an older Ubuntu version but these commands should work:

lspci | grep audio       <--- identify audio devices on the PCI bus
cat /proc/asound/cards   <--- does ALSA see the audio hardware ?

Good luck!

    -Frans