[LAU] Damn Ubuntu 9.10 update

[Emanuel Rumpf]

2009/11/12 Marco Castorina <marco.castorina at yahoo.it>:
> Dear all,
>  today I made the biggest mistake of my life I think, I upgraded from ubuntu
> 9.04 to 9.10.
> Everything is working almost fine, but the audio is gone. If I try to boot
> from the CD, there's no problem,
> but when I get back to the actual system, there's no sound.
>
> The card is recognized:
> marco at marco-x41:~$ lspci | grep audio
> 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW
> (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
>
> !!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
> !!-----------------------------
>
>  0 [ICH6           ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH6
>                       Intel ICH6 with AD1981B at irq 22
>
> but not for playing audio:
> APLAY
> aplay: device_list:223: no soundcards found...
> ARECORD
> arecord: device_list:223: no soundcards found...
>
> Also when I try starting Jack:
>
> Could not open ALSA sequencer as a client. ALSA MIDI patchbay will be not
> available.
>
> ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such
> file or directory
>
> and there are no sound cards to select.
>
> Any ideas?
>


Make sure the seq module is loaded:
modprobe -v snd_seq_midi
modprobe -v snd_seq_dummy

# maybe:
modprobe -v snd_hda_intel

# check with:
lsmod | grep snd_seq


What is the output of

cat /proc/asound/cards


and


aplay -l
(-l is a little L)


and

lsmod | grep snd_hda



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E.R.