<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Basil Chupin <<a href="mailto:blchupin@iinet.net.au" target="_blank">blchupin@iinet.net.au</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I am sorry that I have not been following the thread and will try and see if I can catch on things whic will give me an idea of what you are running (audio card, Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10, etc). While I try and look (here being the weekend I may not get to you for a couple of days) in System>Preferences>Sound is the slider pushed to full or close to full volume? <div> </div> Oh, another question: do you have onboard sound (ie on the motherboard) and then also a PCI sound card? If so, did you turn off the onboard sound in the BIOS setting? BC -- A man kept complaining about not having shoes to wear - until he saw a man with no legs. </blockquote></div> I'll try to provide as much relevant information as I can; I didn't originally provide much info. because I thought that I knew enough to follow the troubleshooting guide's instructions. I have 10.10 GNOME nat0@nat0-E-6100:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Audigy2 ]: Audigy2 - SB Audigy 2 [Unknown] SB Audigy 2 [Unknown] (rev.4, serial:0x10061102) at 0xbc00, irq 17 I tested the speakers on the "Sound Preferences" -- nothing; the hardware profile is "Analog Stereo Duplex" The B.I.O.S. is Intel BZ8710A.15A.0080.P07 Hmm, I see that this thread is quickly developing responses; I will post this and then see what has been posted while I have been occupied. --N.B. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a>