This is going to sound silly but run aumix and you might see your cards
sound turned town. You've got AC97 sound, it one of the most generic
chipsets out there so it should work.
In my ubuntu I've got 2 mixers that show up, I had to mess with the
preferences to have it default to the correct one. That may be an
avenue for you as well.
David S. wrote:
> I don't post much, but find this group interesting to read while
> trying to learn some new things. Now I could use some help.
>
> I have tried looking all over the internet to find the reason why I do
> not have sound and cant find anything. Someone suggested "switch to
> the 'default' virtual device in the ALSA output plugin." But they
> never elaborated as to where this 'default' is that needs to be set.
> And if it needs to be set to the 'default' then I have no idea how it
> got off of the 'default' in the first place.
>
> So hopefully someone here might be able to help.
>
> Prior to upgrading from Ubuntu Fiesty to Gutsy I had sound. After the
> upgrade I only get sound when the Ubuntu login screen comes up. After
> that, nothing.
>
> I am not sure how much this will help, but here is some info on what I
> have:
>
> Output from lspci -v
> 00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400
> AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
> Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 309b
> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
> Memory at c0003400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
> Capabilities: <access denied>
>
> From: cat /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [IXP ]: ATIIXP - ATI IXP
> ATI IXP rev 2 with unknown codec at 0xc0003400, irq 17
>
> 1 [Modem ]: ATIIXP-MODEM - ATI IXP Modem
> ATI IXP Modem rev 2 at 0xc0003800, irq 17
>
>
> And from: lsmod | grep snd
> lsmod | grep snd
> snd_rtctimer 5216 1
> snd_atiixp_modem 19468 2
> snd_atiixp 24084 6
> snd_ac97_codec 122200 2 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp
> snd_seq_dummy 5380 0
> snd_seq_oss 36864 0
> snd_seq_midi 11008 0
> ac97_bus 4096 1 snd_ac97_codec
> snd_pcm_oss 50048 0
> snd_mixer_oss 20096 1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_rawmidi 29824 1 snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq_midi_event 9984 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
> snd_pcm 94344 8
> snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_seq 62496 7
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_seq_device 10260 5
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
> snd_timer 27272 3 snd_rtctimer,snd_pcm,snd_seq
> snd 69288 24
> snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_timer
>
> soundcore 10272 1 snd
> snd_page_alloc 12560 3 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp,snd_pcm
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
> David
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