audio lost ...

[georghess]

I have a gateway mx laptop ... kubuntu 7.04 running fine ... even got the intel 915 resolution solved.
Tried 7.10 T5 and found that the audio was turned off ... any ideas ???
I have sigmaTel ... hmmm
Everything else looks great ... even the intel 945GM works fine.

georg

[ishmobile]

I had the same problem. I finally figured out that the PSM audio (in KMix) was turned down. Maybe, it's not the same problem on yours, but I felt stupid when it was so easy. That's all I got.

[CJCJ]

I get no sound at all. I have a red cross over the speak symbol in the system tray. When I hover over it, it says "mixer cannot be found". Clicking on it brings up KMIx but there are no current mixers to select. Everything was working fine in 7.04.

I have a MSI motherboard with integral sound. Anyone any ideas?

[dibl]

Lotta folks having lotta trouble with sound, lately. Not sure what 's it all about. Here's what I've got to offer:

1. Good troubleshooting link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449

2. My notes from setting up Gutsy Beta on my Intel HDA sound system ( 2 days ago):

ALSA packages:

alsa-base
alsa-oss
alsa-tools-gui
alsamixergui
alsaplayer-alsa
alsaplayer-common


Players:

Kaffeine
vlc
vlc-plugins*


Codec packages:

kubuntu-restricted-extras
w64codecs {for 64-bit, or else w32codecs for 32-bit}
libxine-extracodecs gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

Firefox packages:

kaffeine-mozilla
mozilla-mplayer
mozilla-plugin-vlc


Hope there's some help in here somewhere ... :D

[CJCJ]

I've got mine sorted out again now. A complete reinstall was what it took to regain detection of my soundcard. It solved a small number of other minor niggles like old artwork on login.

One of the lessons I have learned is not to install Linux on a machine with motherboard and graphics board less than 6 months out, or at least expect problems until the next release.

Everything going remarkably well now.

[dibl]

One of the lessons I have learned is not to install Linux on a machine with motherboard and graphics board less than 6 months out, or at least expect problems until the next release.



That is a very reasonable general "rule of thumb". I would extend it to "connectible stuff" as well, like printers, scanners, memory card readers, etc.

Another aspect of the hardware domain, particularly for the motherboard, is "standard vs. tweaked-for-Windows". On that principle, I bought an Intel motherboard, assuming (correctly, as it turns out) that it would be least likely to have chipset and BIOS compatibility issues with whatever Linux distro I chose.

Glad to "hear" your sound is back! ;D