[LAU] lost sound (it had been working)

Reid Vail rsv869 at roadrunner.com
Mon Jan 19 10:51:11 EST 2009


Hello Group -

I'm really confused about what's gone wrong with my sound.  Total 
Silence even though it was working less than two weeks ago after an 
upgrade to 8.10.  User error?, or a bad patch maybe...can you help?

I'm running ubuntu 8.10 on a 64-bit machine

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I have done some research and have been following the steps I found at 
this posting:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449&highlight=comprehensive+sound

First step is this:
results appear normal.

reid at linux-rv:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
  Subdevices: 4/4
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
reid at linux-rv:~$

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Second step:
reid at linux-rv:~$ lspci -v
:
:
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 80b0
    Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 22
    I/O ports at c800 [size=256]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: VIA 82xx Audio
    Kernel modules: snd-via82xx

Looks Ok, I think

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Third step:


reid at linux-rv:~$ sudo modprobe snd-via-82xx
[sudo] password for reid:
FATAL: Module snd_via_82xx not found.
reid at linux-rv:~$

That's not good, or expected.

Fourth step (sorry about the screwy formatting):



reid at linux-rv:~$  lsmod|grep snd
snd_via82xx            36904  3
snd_via82xx_modem      21900  0
gameport               21776  1 snd_via82xx
snd_seq_dummy          11524  0
snd_ac97_codec        133080  2 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem
ac97_bus               10368  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            52608  0
snd_mixer_oss          25088  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                99208  4 
snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss            42368  0
snd_mpu401_uart        16768  1 snd_via82xx
snd_seq_midi           15872  0
snd_rawmidi            34176  2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event     16768  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                67168  6 
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              34320  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device         16404  5 
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    79432  18 
snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
snd_page_alloc         17680  3 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_pcm
soundcore              16800  1 snd

So...I'm not sure what to look for here....

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Reid




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