Sound problems Warth Warthog (with Windows XP issue) and fix.

[Paul Schulz]

This was on of the first thinks I checked ;-)
and everything looked to be OK (all mutes off).

It was working nicely prior to the reinstallation of Windows as well.
The only things that were done to the system were:
  - reinstallation of Windows.
  - installation of lm-sensors (which was the first change I reversed
out without affect).

I can only suspect that there is a secret 'master mute'  that windows sets on
this multimedia card that it doesn't have a sound driver for.

Cheers, Paul

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:20:29 -0800, Lee Colleton <lee.colleton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:20:50 +1030, Paul Schulz <pschulz01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I recently installed Ubuntu Warty Warthog on a brand new Desktop (i686
> > - Celeron).
> >
> > After installing Ubuntu Linux, I reinstalled Windows XP on the first partition
> > (this was required for testing of another intermediate reboot fault.)
> > After this installation, the sound card (on motherboard) stopped
> > outputting sound.
> > (No sound driver was installed under Windows.)
> >
> > SOLUTION: Install sound driver in Windows.
> > Sound works again under Linux.
> >
> > [Has anyone else experienced this problem? I tried various Google searches,
> > and wasn't able find anything close to this issue.
> > "Ubuntu sound missing"
> > "Ubuntu audio lost" etc.]
> >
> > Regards, Paul
> > (Other keywords: module, modutils, audio, fix, sound missing)
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > lspci
> > ...
> > 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> > VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97
> > ...
> >
> > > lspci -n
> > ..
> > 0000:00:11.5 Class 0401: 1106:3059 (rev 50)
> > ...
> >
> > > lspci | grep snd
> > snd_via82xx            26660  3
> > snd_ac97_codec         59268  1 snd_via82xx
> > snd_pcm_oss            48296  0
> > snd_mixer_oss          16640  3 snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_pcm                85540  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_timer              23300  1 snd_pcm
> > snd_page_alloc         11144  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
> > gameport                4736  1 snd_via82xx
> > snd_mpu401_uart         7296  1 snd_via82xx
> > snd_rawmidi            23232  1 snd_mpu401_uart
> > snd_seq_device          7944  1 snd_rawmidi
> > snd                    50660  11
> > snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixe
> > r_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> > soundcore               9824  3 snd
> >
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> 
> Be sure to run alsamixer to check that your sound output isn't muted.
> Both Master and PCM should be on (and CD, Mic or whatever other
> sources you may be using).
>