Enable soundcard?

[Doug McGarrett]

On 4/5/20 5:55 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 17:31, Thomas Tanghus <thomas at tanghus.net> wrote:
> 
>>   There's no dedicated sound card,
> [...]
>> and for the MB it only says AMD Athlon 5350 / 2 GHz
>> Processor - AM1 on the invoice.
> 
> OK, so we _need_ to know what motherboard you have.
> 
> Take the lid off and have a look with a flashlight! You don't have to
> unplug or disconnect anything. Might be a good time to blow the dust
> out, though!
> 
>> The only playback device I can get to work is the headphones. Choosing Line
>> Out doesn't produce any sound when trying with a small speaker set I got.
> 
> Are the speakers amplified? Yes? If so, are they plugged in? If yes,
> then turn up their physical volume control.
> 
> Is there a headphone socket at the back? Try that.
> 
>> - Tobago HDMI Audio [Radeon R7 360 / R9 360 OEM]
>>    - The only option is "Off"
> 
To assist those reading this link: if you don't have lshw, install it, then run it.
It should tell you what your sound system is. (I assume lshw is available in Ubuntu.
If it's not there should be a deb file somewhere that you can install.)
lshw lists all the hardware that it finds in your system.

--doug--from rpm world