No sound Ubuntu 7.04

Hi,

Try going to to System->Sound. Under "Device," make sure your sound card is selected. You should also play around with the other settings, mostly "Sound playback." Try, for example, OSS instead of ALSA.

If that doesn't work, you can try running "alsamixer" from the terminal. Make sure that everything is on.

Hello,

I have pretty much the same laptop. Same spec from the lspci command, except no firewire (hey i got shorted!). No sound in 7.04. It is new, so I have not tried 6.10 on it.

In sound preference panel, if i click test on the:

for "Sound Events: Sound Playback"
- automatic, the sound panel closes. Not sure if there is a log somewhere...
- Si3054, I get the testing... pop up with only the first two segments of the bar shaded. No test sound.
- ALSA, I get a popup that says: audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Could not open resource for writing.
- ESD, I get a popup that says: audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Could not establish connection to sound server
- OSS, I get a popup that says: audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Could not open resource for writing.

for "Movies and Music: Sound Playback", I get the extra same messages.

I went into alsamixer and it did not say much. It showed the item as caller id or offhook. Does not sound right to me...

I have a screenshot and can attach it if i can figure out how.

Hi,
I have the same problem with the sound on a Desktop mashine HP dx2200
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI 4379 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 82)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200]
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

Everything seems to be working but there is no sound. I precompile the alsa driver and test a lot of methods with no result. May be the driver is not working properly with this kernel...
If somebody find a solution please let us know.

Just to loop back, I did try installing 6.10 on my machine and the sound worked.

but the wifi didn't so I am back to 7.04, and looking forward to resolving the audio!!

Thanks

I have the same soundcard. Adding acpi=off to the kernelparameters enables the sound. (but disables the battery state indicator)
(I had 6.10 installed and had to add the same parameters.) But with 7.04 I also loose the ability to set the CPU speed (Quiet'n Cool)

I have the same laptop (basically, slightly older version, same chipsets), and am having the exact same problem.

Is there a fix that doesn't involve disabling ACPI? Obviously, giving up battery management on a laptop is a losing proposition.

I'd be happy to provide any additional information, but as I said, it's essentially the exact same issue as above. All was well with Edgy, but no sound under Feisty.

This has also happened to me on three separate, nearly identical ASUS-based laptops. Sound worked fine on all three with Edgy, doesn't work with Feisty. Sure is quiet around here.

Has anyone found a solution ? How do we get this solved ?

I am having the same issue. It really bugs me that I can't have sound on this OS. Please help.

This was fine VERY RECENTLY; I was using Audacity on my UbuntuStudio 7.04 system with no probs.
Now, however:
Audacity sees no audio device;
Jack doesn't see the device;
and the volume control applet says there is no device.

 In the Hardware device manager I see the PCI sound card OK:
"ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller"

Also I see that:
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc1 (Tue Jan 09 09:56:17 2007 UTC).
~$ grep VERSION_STR /usr/include/alsa/version.h
#define SND_LIB_VERSION_STR "1.0.13
~$ amixer -v
amixer version 1.0.13

I'd be grateful for any help in getting my soundcard working again properly!
Many thanks, in anticipation.

It seems this problem is not fixed yet. I have the same problem with 7.04 on my laptop. All the settings suggest that the sound card is recognised but nothing I do enables the sound.

Any new thoughts on this?

Dave

I have the same or a similar problem. When I test the ALSA, I get this popup:

audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=music: Could not open resource for writing.

When I plugged the whole thing into google I found one forum discussing it and it looks like they've found a solution there. I'll have to try it out.
here it is:

 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2210477

oops, that's for microphones now that I read into it more, my apologies.

FIXED!

Was having the same problem: audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=music: Could not open resource for writing.

Goto System->Preferences->Sound and set everything to autodetect.

Run:

1) sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
2) sudo chmod 666 /dev/snd/*

Then go back to System->Preferences->Sound and hit TEST. You should hear a beep.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the advice. Tried it but silence continues!

Dave

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem (with different hardware), but what's even more "interesting" is, that this problem occurs only with one user account. The other account works fine! And both accounts/usernames have exactly the same sound settings...

Weird... :(

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Hi again,

I found out how to solve the problem!! Here are details:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblems

...so basically, removing the .asoundrc* files from your own directory (e.g. with 'rm .asoundrc*') was enough. Yes!! :)

I too have the "audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=music: Could not open resource for writing." problem. I have an ASUS M2NPV-VM with 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) and the sound would work intermittently. No idea why a reboot would fix it.

The aforementioned wiki link does not go into enough detail, but it got me started with asounconf. I ran:
$ asoundconf list
Names of available sound cards:
CX8801_1
CX8801
NVidia

I chose to reset the default sound card before I set the default. From the previous list, my sound card is the 3rd in the list. However being Linux software, being written by software people, the list starts at 0. So the 3rd card is #2.
asoundconf reset-default-card
asoundconf set-default-card 2

After I ran those commands to set the sound card, I saw some new files ~/.asoundrc* for sound configuration.
$ ls ~/.asoundrc*
/home/tuskentower/.asoundrc /home/tuskentower/.asoundrc.asoundconf

Thanks guys,

the rm ~/.asoundrc* works

The odd thing was that the sound initially had worked and then conked out. I guess the sound configuration got corrupted during the second restart. very odd...

Shafeeq

Hello,

I have the same problem (audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=music: Could not open resource for writing)

The problem is just with one user. The other (main) user works fine. The problem started when I put the second user in the sudo group.
There are no files that start with .asoundrc so that will not work for me.

I followed the suggestion of 1handyandy doing:
1) sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
2) sudo chmod 666 /dev/snd/*

This works as long as the session is active. When I logout-login it still works. But when I restart the system the same problem is back again. I have no clue what is happening. Anybody an Idea?

I have two PC's and one laptop running Ubuntu and I have sound and microphone problems with all of them.
Unlike other problems that I had during installation like screen resolution and wireless the sound problems are keeping coming back. Many time the problems are intermittent what makes it hard to trouble shoot.

i am also having the same problem. i have usb speakers and when i configure it through menus to OSS it works fine but when its ALSA i get this error.
This doesnt help:
1) sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
2) sudo chmod 666 /dev/snd/*
Also this doesnt help:
rm ~/.asoundrc*

My aplay -l output is:
karta 0: SI7012 [SiS SI7012], zařízení 0: Intel ICH [SiS SI7012]
  Podzařízení: 1/1
  Podzařízení #0: subdevice #0
karta 1: pcsp [pcsp], zařízení 0: pcspeaker [pcsp]
  Podzařízení: 1/1
  Podzařízení #0: subdevice #0
karta 2: default [C-Media USB Audio ], zařízení 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Podzařízení: 1/1
  Podzařízení #0: subdevice #0
karta 3: Modem [SiS SI7013 Modem], zařízení 0: Intel ICH - Modem [SiS SI7013 Modem - Modem]
  Podzařízení: 0/1
  Podzařízení #0: subdevice #0

And my asoundconf list is:
Names of available sound cards:
SI7012
pcsp
default
Modem

i am also having the same problem. i have usb speakers and when i configure it through menus to OSS it works fine but when its ALSA i get this error.
This doesnt help:
1) sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
2) sudo chmod 666 /dev/snd/*
Also this doesnt help:
rm ~/.asoundrc*

My aplay -l output is:
karta 0: SI7012 [SiS SI7012], zařízení 0: Intel ICH [SiS SI7012]
  Podzařízení: 1/1
  Podzařízení #0: subdevice #0
karta 1: pcsp [pcsp], zařízení 0: pcspeaker [pcsp]
  Podzařízení: 1/1
  Podzařízení #0: subdevice #0
karta 2: default [C-Media USB Audio ], zařízení 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Podzařízení: 1/1
  Podzařízení #0: subdevice #0
karta 3: Modem [SiS SI7013 Modem], zařízení 0: Intel ICH - Modem [SiS SI7013 Modem - Modem]
  Podzařízení: 0/1
  Podzařízení #0: subdevice #0

And my asoundconf list is:
Names of available sound cards:
SI7012
pcsp
default
Modem

Same problem. Have tried most suggestions on this page. Sound initially worked perfectly but the suddenly disappeared this afternoon. rebooting didn't help.

I get this:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: IXP [ATI IXP], device 0: ATI IXP AC97 [ATI IXP AC97]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Modem [ATI IXP Modem], device 0: ATI IXP MC97 [ATI IXP MC97]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

when I open alsamixer it states that my soundcard is soundpulse. might this be the problem?

This is strange. I have this problem too, it has come this afternoon. I use the radeonhd graphics driver with hdmi audio support, could it have to do with it? When I want to shut down my computer it hangs when there prints: Stopping alsa...
I have to take the electricity away.

I think I experience this Bug btw.: Bug 294160

I think I experience this Bug btw.: Bug 294160

What happens if you get this when trying to run alsamixer?

ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection terminated

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection refused

!!!!!!!!!!!FIXED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I couldn't hear any sound from my laptop.

I installed gnu-audio from my package manager Synaptic Package Manager.

Then I re-installed alsa and alsa-utils using my package manager.

After installations, I restarted my computer. Voila, sound in my ears.

I still cannot hear playback from my Rhythmbox, but I will re=install it and restart my computer. Hopefully that will work.

Carlos.