no sound

[Mark]

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> I am using Ubuntu10.10 and have no sound.  I am using alsa for sound and
> this is what I am getting from the terminal. Does this tell anyone
> anything about my lack of sound.                 Doug
>
>  douglas at ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -c sound
>   *-multimedia UNCLAIMED
>        description: Audio device
>        product: VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio
> Controller)
>        vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
>        physical id: 1
>        bus info: pci at 0000:20:01.0
>        version: 10
>        width: 64 bits
>        clock: 33MHz
>        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
>        configuration: latency=0
>

I'm not positive, but it could be that you don't have a sound driver.
Here's what mine shows:

mar at markbase:~ $ sudo lshw -c sound
  *-multimedia
       description: Audio device
       product: MCP61 High Definition Audio
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 5
       bus info: pci at 0000:00:05.0
       version: a2
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm msi ht bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 maxlatency=5 mingnt=2
       resources: irq:22 memory:fe024000-fe027fff

HTH

Mark