I did a clean install of 12.10. When I open Sound Settings in gnome the only device in the list is "Dummy Output", and sound is not working.
Sound worked fine out of the box in 12.04.
I ran alsamixer, it says my card is "HDA Intel", and chip is "Realtek ALC880". The alsamixer playback output was set to mute at first, unmuting did not fix.
I checked out the info at unixmen as suggested on a similar question; I've done everything there except installing the ubuntu audio dev team driver. Should I try install this?
Edit: I've been reading the sound troubleshooting guide.
It looks like Ubuntu is finding my audio device correctly.
mike@wucade:~$ lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio"
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Albatron Corp. Device 2668
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 40
Memory at d01c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
Still stuck as to why this isn't working.
pulseaudio
? If you do, firstkillall pulseaudio
and then try starting it again withpulseaudio
aplay -l
? And check if maybe an audio app locks the device by using it thru alsa directly (ex: hw:0,0) because it would prevents pulseaudio to open it. Remember pulseaudio uses alsa !pavucontrol
I have used this a few times to figure out problems with sound.