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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?
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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Otherwise, does sound act like it should play, but just no sound comes out? Or if you try to play something (using, mplayer, for instance), does it hang and/or proceed very slowly? When you start trying to play a sound, do you get any messages in /var/log/syslog?
Oh, and because I've done this plenty of times: when you go into alsamixer and set everything to 100%, you are also unmuting all of the channels, right?
(Looks around...) There's also the Sound Preferences panel that you can get to by right-clicking on the volume icon in your notification panel. Worth looking around there and making sure that everything is correct--I think that once I had some card default to headphones-out rather than the normal output jack.