What packages are necessary for a computer to have sound?

[Shabakthanai]

I made a post regarding no sound for my new sound card, but I believe I worded it badly. I am not getting sound since installation of my new sound card. Wine was unable to install the drivers, and kubuntu did not install necessary packages supply sound for my computer. In the past this installation has been made during the installation of the OS, so I don't know what to do.

I have another OS on my computer Windows 7. I installed the provided package that came with my sound card, so sound works there. Thanks for any help!

[whatthefunk]

What kind of sound card is it? Open System Settings > Multimedia > Audio and Video Settings. Is your card listed in the Audio Hardware Setup tab?

[Rod J]

Wine and hardware drivers won't work. Wine was never designed to do that (as far as I know).

What does lspci | grep Audio report? (assuming this is an internal card).

[Teunis]

First you follow whatthefunk's recipe, if this doesn't lead to a solution you can follow the next:

The way the developers intend it to function is by means of 'auto detect'.
Only if this doesn't work you can go to other options.

Auto detection is enabled by going to System Settings / Driver Manager and click the 'Refresh driver list'.
If there's any hardware present that has proprietary drivers available it will be shown and you can click the appropriate button for installation.

But usually Kubuntu (Linux) will auto detect hardware at boot up and enable sound without any intervention.

If the previous doesn't work you should follow Ron J's suggestion and start the hunt...

[Shabakthanai]

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Rx

What kind of sound card is it? Open System Settings > Multimedia > Audio and Video Settings. Is your card listed in the Audio Hardware Setup tab?

[Shabakthanai]

Hi Rod,

Boy do I feel stupid, it still shows the MBs onboard audio. I was unable to copy and paste again. When I tried, instead of Paste as an option I got a long list of numbers and letters, single vertical column. It says Add, Ignore, Add to dictionary.

00:14.2 Audio Device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
01:00.1 Audio Device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7700/7800 Series]

It was a last effort for me; I did not know what to do then, except bother you guys again. I believe the on board Audio is pretty good, but had a couple of problems and thought I could improve getting the SB card. I remember being told to disable on board audio, thought I did, but guess I don't know how to do that. Help would be appreciated. It amazes me that every new installation has new problems that I have not before experienced. Is it the same for everyone, or am I jinxed? Great to hear from you Rod.

Wine and hardware drivers won't work. Wine was never designed to do that (as far as I know).

What does lspci | grep Audio report? (assuming this is an internal card).

[Teunis]

I can only speak for myself but I am generally quite happy to accept settings the way Kubuntu does them by default.
So I'm typically using the so-called Analogue sound system with the standard KMix volume control and don't delve into other options until something doesn't work right.
If I want to configure something I always start with investigating the options available in System Settings.
Having realised my on board sound is sometimes weak I also installed the Alsa, PulseAudio and Veromix controllers but see them as a sort of secondary resort.

[Shabakthanai]

What about Creative saying I should first disable on-board sound? How would I do that? Teunis, how many packages are included in the Alsa, and Veromix and Pulse Audio installation. However, I would really want to try disabling the ATI drivers first, if they are still installed. Then I would like to restart the computer and see if Kubuntu can identify and install suitable drivers. If you can tell me how to disable the on-board drivers, I will then first do the System Settings Driver search. Perhaps they will be in there now, or after the ATI drivers are disabled. I wait for an answer.

I can only speak for myself but I am generally quite happy to accept settings the way Kubuntu does them by default.
So I'm typically using the so-called Analogue sound system with the standard KMix volume control and don't delve into other options until something doesn't work right.
If I want to configure something I always start with investigating the options available in System Settings.
Having realised my on board sound is sometimes weak I also installed the Alsa, PulseAudio and Veromix controllers but see them as a sort of secondary resort.

[Shabakthanai]

Dear Teunis,

After several other replies, I am returning to your post about Refresh Drivers List. I did attempt to refresh the drivers, however nothing came up for sound, just the Video drivers for ATI with the (Recommended Driver) installed. I have been re-reading the replies to see if I missed anything and noticed I did not respond to your advice in print. I just wanted you to know I did follow your advice. Thanks!

[Rod J]

As Teunis said:

If I want to configure something I always start with investigating the options available in System Settings.

In System Settings, Multimedia, Phonon, Audio Hardware Setup tab. There you can enable/disable your audio hardware as required. I'm not sure if your system will be exactly the same as I'm still using 12.04 here. I have disabled the HDMI audio on my Radeon HD graphic card as it was conflicting with something else (as I can recall, can't remember exactly what it was).

[Shabakthanai]

I include an attachment of my Audio and Video Settings in System Settings:



I tested all three and none made any sound. I checked in the package manager and just a few of the phonon packages are installed. If any necessary packages are not installed, how would I know? Should I install them all? Thanks for your patience, my friend.

As Teunis said: In System Settings, Multimedia, Phonon, Audio Hardware Setup tab. There you can enable/disable your audio hardware as required. I'm not sure if your system will be exactly the same as I'm still using 12.04 here. I have disabled the HDMI audio on my Radeon HD graphic card as it was conflicting with something else (as I can recall, can't remember exactly what it was).

[Teunis]

The HDMI one (2nd) is purely for use through an HDMI connection like to a TV.
The other two should 'just work'.
The order they have in your screen shot is fine.

Get onto the second tab and make sure one of the analogue cards is selected, then press the Test button...

[Snowhog]

And, what Backend are you using?

[Shabakthanai]

I have tried them all many times, no sound.

The HDMI one (2nd) is purely for use through an HDMI connection like to a TV.
The other two should 'just work'.
The order they have in your screen shot is fine.

Get onto the second tab and make sure one of the analogue cards is selected, then press the Test button...

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[Shabakthanai]

This installation is becoming as big a nightmare as the previous installations. What do you think, should I try it again by re-installing a different version of the OS?

Not having sound and having documents open under the existing image is untenable. I really can't use my computer if I have to accept those problems. I hate spending any time in the Win7 OS, but have to if I want to stay sane. I am finally overwhelmed, Snowhog; what would you do if you were in my position?

Whenever I mention it, it goes unattended but, is there code that would disable on board sound? When I installed the sound card on the Windows 7 OS, it said to disable all on board sound before installing the drivers. I don't know how to do that, and Google can't provide the answer I need. That may be all that is necessary to get the Creative driver to install properly, whomever made it.