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wyntarvox ([personal profile] wyntarvox) wrote in [community profile] linux4all2009-11-09 12:50 pm

Ubuntu 9.10 has no audio

Last weekend I set up dual-boot Windows XP and Ubuntu 9.10 on my desktop. Everything went fine and I'm really liking Ubuntu so far. (A few years ago I dual-booted a desktop with Windows XP and Debian also, so I'm not completely new to this process.)

However, the only problem I'm having is that I have no audio in Ubuntu. It works fine in XP, both before I installed Ubuntu and now when I boot to XP with both installed. I had a look around Google and found a few people with similar problems, but none of the suggestions seemed to help.

I have two sound cards, one built-in and one additional. I originally bought the additional because I could never get the built-in card to work in XP. I had the built-in card disabled in the BIOS, and Ubuntu (with aplay -l) was only showing the additional card, as expected. I enabled the built-in card and Ubuntu picked it up, but setting the audio to use that card still had no effect.

The additional card is a Creative EV1938 (so it's fairly old).

I've run alsamixer for both cards and made sure all of the settings are at 100% but still no love.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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