No sound after upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10

[Kent Seaton]

I tried to fix this issue by following the guide posted by psyke83 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5435969&postcount=1). No change in the results after rebooting the system. Included in this post is my output of lspci and my sources.list.

Upgrade performed as standard method:
$ update-manager --dist-upgrade

-= Update =-
I was able to get sound back by turning off pulseaudio. I'd like to get pulseaudio working on this setup.

-= lspci =-
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:08.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:09.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:09.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus (rev a2)
00:09.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:0a.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a1)
00:0a.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0c.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE (rev a1)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:0d.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:0d.2 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge (rev a2)
00:10.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:11.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:12.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:17.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7950 GT] (rev a1)
02:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01)
02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03)
02:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 03)
02:0a.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port

-= sources.list =-
## a “general” sources.list for Hardy Heron; all sources are uncommented.

# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in

## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid universe

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the ‘backports’
## repository.

## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical’s
## ‘partner’ repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu intrepid partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu intrepid partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security main restricted

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-proposed restricted main multiverse universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security restricted main multiverse universe

[Uwe Helm (1forthedoctor)]

Hi,

please follow the steps at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems

[Kent Seaton (spr0k3t)]

Link given from alsa-info.sh

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=2a70eaa047b5c849543194a2fbdcc7b711d00cea

[Kent Seaton (spr0k3t)]

Any recommendations?

[Erik Reuter (misc71)]

I had a similar problem. There was a partial workaround to get sound working again here:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/288861

where alsamixer -Dhw revealed that the PCM volume was at zero, and turning it up restored
sound operation. I still have the problem that my system hangs during shutdown while it is
shutting down ALSA. Possibly ALSA cannot be shutdown because pulseaudio -k does not
work, and pulseaudio is an ALSA client.

Here is a list of similar bugs:

#288861
#288652
#288093
#288039
#286966
#286430
#285965

[Kent Seaton (spr0k3t)]

Thanks Erik... those other bugs gave a bit more insight on where to look into possible problems. However, this still has not fixed the issue I'm having. Tomorrow I'm going to reinstall from scratch and see if I can track down what I did wrong.

On a side note, I have been able to get pulseaudio working on my mythbox and my laptop without any problems such as these. I'm hoping I can get everything working before the release.

[goto (gotolaunchpad)]

Are your problems solved after the reinstall?

[Kent Seaton (spr0k3t)]

I believe the problem was tied to the sound card. After the reinstall of the system, I still had the same problems. I pulled the sound card and went back to the onboard audio. This took care of the problems.

[goto (gotolaunchpad)]

I close this bug, because it works with another sound card now.