Trying to get sound in Kubuntu

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  • VettoNo Gravatar Says:
    December 18th, 2005 at 8:20 pm

    Check chmod of /dev/dsp
    In some occasions, sound is only available to root. To check this, open gnome terminal and type “sudo totem” (without quote and you can run other player if you want.) Play a music and check whether you can listen music. If you do, close the totem and type “sudo chmod 666 /dev/dsp” (without quote.)
    If you still can’t listen any sound check the next step.

    Check whether the volume is mute
    I know this is ridiculous. But it does happen.
    If your sound problem still keep going, check the last step, where my sound problem was finally resolved.

    Run alsamixer and turn off IEC related options
    IEC is an input to certain high end sound cards that support optical (fiber optic) sound feed from such things as DVD players etc.. My sound card is SIS on board and certainly doesn’t have ability of using IEC. But Ubuntu turned on those options by default.
    To turn off those options, rum “alsamixer” (without quote) in gnome terminal. You can move around each option with your arrow key (right and left key.) Move to every IEC related options, turn off all of those options (use keyboard “m” to turn off.) After turning off hit “Esc” key to save, and type “sudo alsactl store” so that it is saved permanently.

    In my case, this solved my ubuntu sound problem. I guess, most of ubuntu users whose sound card is detected but have no sound may solve the problem with this simple configuration.

  • VettoNo Gravatar Says:
    December 18th, 2005 at 8:50 pm

    OK…did the above with no luck.

    Then I unmuted PCM whatever that is in the KMixer and VIOLA!!! sound!

  • linuxpunk81No Gravatar Says:
    February 22nd, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    So do you talk to yourself on your blog? How about getting two momitors to work with two video cards? sounds easy enough….but you know better. Oh while I’m here I cam across this http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Overview.html
    its a weird browser were you can do some crazy web dev from. Anyway ttyl and yes this is justin

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