I have no sound

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Binary package hint: alsa-utils

 I have no sound at all. When i restart alsa-utils, i have a load of problems. The following is taken from a pastebay page i made... http://tr.im/AlPi
Command "sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart" gives this:
Invalid card number.
Usage: amixer <options> [command]
Available options:
  -h,--help this help
  -c,--card N select the card
  -D,--device N select the device, default 'default'
  -d,--debug debug mode
  -n,--nocheck do not perform range checking
  -v,--version print version of this program
  -q,--quiet be quiet
  -i,--inactive show also inactive controls
  -a,--abstract L select abstraction level (none or basic)
  -s,--stdin Read and execute commands from stdin sequentially
Available commands:
  scontrols show all mixer simple controls
  scontents show contents of all mixer simple controls (default command)
  sset sID P set contents for one mixer simple control
  sget sID get contents for one mixer simple control
  controls show all controls for given card
  contents show contents of all controls for given card
  cset cID P set control contents for one control
  cget cID get control contents for one control
Invalid card number.
Usage: amixer <options> [command]
Available options:
  -h,--help this help
  -c,--card N select the card
  -D,--device N select the device, default 'default'
  -d,--debug debug mode
  -n,--nocheck do not perform range checking
  -v,--version print version of this program
  -q,--quiet be quiet
  -i,--inactive show also inactive controls
  -a,--abstract L select abstraction level (none or basic)
  -s,--stdin Read and execute commands from stdin sequentially

But OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
Sound doesnt work, either.

 Ubuntu 9.10
Alsa-utils version 1.0.20-2ubuntu3
I Expected sound to work, and when it didnt, for alsa-utils to restart without a problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 1 18:46:09 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: alsa-utils 1.0.20-2ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-15.49-generic
SourcePackage: alsa-utils
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Ubuntu 9.10 uses kernel 2.6.31, but you are running 2.6.28. Can you please try to update to the standard Karmic kernel and see if that helps?

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

First, alsa-utils restart does NOT magically make sound work. It (re)stores volume settings. For Lucid, I will add a big fat warning so people who manually invoke it can see that it has nothing to do with anything other than (re)storing volume settings.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu development release http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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