Ubuntu

after upgrade to ubuntu 9.10 no sound devices were found

Bug #468320 reported by Andis on 2009-11-01

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This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

aplay -l reports no soundcards found...

ProblemType: Bug
AlsaDevices:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2009-11-01 12:58 by-path
AplayDevices: aplay: device_list:223: no soundcards found...
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices: arecord: device_list:223: no soundcards found...
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/dsp', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/sequencer2', '/dev/sequencer', '/dev/seq'] failed with exit code 1:
CheckboxCommand: alsa_record_playback
CheckboxDescription:
Open the volume control application by right-clicking on the speaker icon in the panel and selecting "Sound Preferences". Select the "Input" tab and choose any alternate (non-default) device(s). Select the "Output" tab and choose any alternate (non-default) device(s). When you are done, click the Test button, then speak into the microphone. After a few seconds, your speech will be played back to you.

Did you hear your speech played back?
CheckboxTest: alsa_record_playback_alternates
Date: Sun Nov 1 13:10:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-12.43-generic
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Tags: checkbox-bug
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-12-generic i686

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Andis (andis-lazdins) wrote on 2009-11-01:

#1

BootDmesg.txt Edit (52.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Amixer.info.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Amixer.values.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt Edit (10.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.1.txt Edit (124 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (3.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciMultimedia.txt Edit (618 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (914 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Andis (andis-lazdins) wrote on 2009-11-01:

#2

I can't boot with Karmic kernel, because it crashes at startup, therefore I use Jaunty kernel for booting.

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Luis (lsuarezm) wrote on 2009-11-01:

#3

I had to reinstall ubuntu after upgrading from 9.04, because the Kernel didn't work. But with a newly instalation the sound problem is the same... I have to force Alsa to reload if I want the sound works.

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Andis (andis-lazdins) wrote on 2009-11-01:

#4

On beta live CD of ubuntu 9.10 sound worked fine. I didn't try final version. Reloading of alsa doesn't make sense with ubuntu 9.04 kernel, however I'm at least able to work with old kernel.
I tried this recommendation to get to work 9.10 kernel http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305459&page=5 but I got response, that I miss something related to kernel sources.

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Krzysztof Klimonda (kklimonda) wrote on 2009-11-01:

#5

@Andis: You have to open a new report about kernel crashing (are you sure it's crashing? Maybe problem is somewhere else, the page you have linked is about configuring X system) at startup, unfortunately there is no official/supported way to get sound (and few other things) working on 2.6.28 kernel after upgrade..
@Luis: Your problem is completely different

Changed in ubuntu:
status:	New → Invalid

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Andis (andis-lazdins) wrote on 2009-11-01:

#6

Yes, the problem comes from X system, which crashes during startup leaving flickering login prompt, which is useless, because it's impossible to enter password.

I'm not an expert in Linux, therefore just deactivated Nvidia drivers after booting with old 9.04 kernel (first I activated v.173 driver and then deactivated it, because for some reason I couldn't deactivete v.185 directly) then I reboot with the new 9.10 kernel, first to recovery mode, then in normal way. Now I have sound and touchpad is also working. But, of course, video quality is poor. I hope, that soon there will be updates to solve this problem.

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