Enable soundcard?

[Doug McGarrett]

On 4/5/20 7:30 PM, Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> On Monday, 6 April 2020 01.09 Doug McGarrett wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Thanks Doug.
> 
> I've put the output at the top of https://www.tanghus.net/audio-debug
> 
> 
OK, I think I see your problem. You need an audio amplifier of some sort and speakers.

Logitek makes a nice package, containing two tweeters that you can mount on a wall behind your screen, and a woofer that 
you can put on the floor under your table or desk. You can adjust the tweeter/bass balance to some degree, but possibly 
not enough. If you put the woofer against a corner of the wall, there will be too much bass, at least for my taste.
I have an audio stereo frequency equalizer each with 10 steps on both channels. This goes between your sound card and 
the Logitech unit. (I am a musician, and I'm fussy; you can probably find a pair of small amplified speakers for a
pittance, or even free somewhere--computers used to come with them. But you get what you pay for.) At any rate, whatever 
you choose goes into the Line Out jack on the computer. (If I remember, some computers had enough stooch to drive
small speakesr directly, but not sure of that--maybe laptops.) I hope I have made clear that I'm generally referring to 
POWERED speakers! You need to plug in a power supply--a wall wart.

--doug