<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi H.S.: Here is what I was able to find out from your tip(which I thank you very kindly for): (By the way, I am using Gnome) **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 So I am assuming that my device is thus: [HDA Intel], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital] I also don't have a play button in my sound preferences. After a little playing around with the preferences like you said I was able to get my sound to work choosing Playback: ALSA PCM on front and it seems to be working fine now Thank you!! Mark H.S. wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:gj1mha$613$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Mark Pyles wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi everyone: I am having a problem with my sound. It is very low. It is so low that I have to use earphones to listen to any type of sound. I am using Ubuntu 8.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1525. When I right click on the sound icon I go to preferences and it shows me that my setting is set for HDA Intel (Alsa Mixer) and below, the selection that is highlighted is "Master". I have tried the other choices in the drop down box which are "SigmaTel STAC9228 (OSS MIXER), Playback: ALSA PCM on front, Capture: Monitor source of ALSA,", but nothing seems to improve my sound. Unfortunately I am not knowledgeable enough yet to find out what the name of my sound card is from the terminal. Is there some way to get the sound to work so that I can actually hear it? Thank you. Mark </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Do you have a volume control applet on your panel? I assume you are using Gnome. If you don't have the applet, add that applet to your panel (right click on the panel and go to Add applet...) and then play with its preferences by setting it to control Master or PCM volume. You can try out various sounds in Preferences->Sound dialog box (they have 'play' button beside them). BTW, to know what is your sound device (or card), you can use this command in the terminal: $> aplay -l </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>