I don't know where to start so I'll give out the best info I can and hope to see some results. - Using Ubuntu 5.04 with the KDE Interface Kubuntu - Sound card is Realtek High Definition Audio - I have the drivers for it, the linux version of the drivers. - modprobe snd_intel8x0 and snd_intel8x0m both return no errors. Problems: - no sound - ./install to auto install the drivers starts to work but then it fails with a bunch of gibberish... - I'm a Linux Newb so I am not even sure what steps to take next. Can anyone help me?

Is it possible you sound channels are simply muted? They often are by default. Try opening kmix and see if Master, PCM, and anything else that seems to make sense is not muted and has a non-zero volume set.

Okay I loaded it up and the only drop down combo box is blank. In the task bar it gives the info "No mixer is found"

When Ubuntu boots into KDE it also says "Cannot find snd device for playback, using null device."

Try to modprobe the drivers, then type 'dmesg'. What does it say?

Which module should I modprobe? I don't know the official module name for the sound card..


Here is dmesg:


BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
503MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
On node 0 totalpages: 128960
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 124864 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x000fb6e0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 A M I OEMRSDT 0x11000412 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1f7c0000
ACPI: FADT (v001 A M I OEMFACP 0x11000412 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1f7c0200
ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x11000412 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1f7c0390
ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I AMI_OEM 0x11000412 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1f7ce040
ACPI: MCFG (v001 A M I OEMMCFG 0x11000412 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1f7c45d0
ACPI: DSDT (v001 A0005 A0005055 0x00000055 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:3 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 15:3 APIC version 20
WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached. Processor ignored.
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda6 ro quiet splash
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 2802.170 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 503836k/515840k available (1436k kernel code, 11448k reserved, 754k data, 224k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 5537.79 BogoMIPS (lpj=2768896)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 0000441d 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found!
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 4336k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=2
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P3._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 *4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 *6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically. If this
** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the
** driver failed to call pci_enable_device(). As a temporary
** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old
** behavior. If this argument makes the device work again,
** please email the output of "lspci" to bjorn.helgaas@hp.com
** so I can fix the driver.
pnp: 00:06: ioport range 0x680-0x6ff has been reserved
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1127686028.258:0): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Restarting tasks...<6> Strange, kswapd0 not stopped
Strange, kseriod not stopped
done
ACPI wakeup devices:
P0P1 P0P3 BNIC P0P4 P0P5 P0P6 P0P7 USB1 USB2 USB3 USB4 EUSB MC97
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4336KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 1.10 loaded.
ata_piix version 1.03
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2 -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC080 ctl 0xC002 bmdma 0xB800 irq 19
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xBC00 ctl 0xB882 bmdma 0xB808 irq 19
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:3069 83:7c01 84:4003 85:3069 86:3c01 87:4003 88:203f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 156301488 sectors: lba48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi0 : ata_piix
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xBC07
ata2: disabling port
scsi1 : ata_piix
elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler
Vendor: ATA Model: ST380013AS Rev: 3.20
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Stopping tasks: ===|
Freeing memory... done (487 pages freed)
Restarting tasks... done
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Adding 975200k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on sda6, internal journal
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HP DVD Writer 630, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdb: HL-DT-ST GCE-8526B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdb: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Capability LSM initialized
device-mapper: 4.3.0-ioctl (2004-09-30) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda7, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
input: PC Speaker
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 915G Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 431M
agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000
cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
Evaluate _OSC Set fails. Status = 0x0005
pciehp: add_host_bridge: status 5
pciehp: Fails to gain control of native hot-plug
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 23, io base 0xc400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1 -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0xc480
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0xc800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4
usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 16, io base 0xc880
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, pci mem 0xcfdb7c00
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 26 Oct 2004
usb 3-1: device descriptor read/all, error -71
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
usbhid: probe of 2-1:1.0 failed with error -5
usbhid: probe of 2-1:1.1 failed with error -5
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
hw_random: RNG not detected
usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2
ICH6: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ICH6: chipset revision 3
ICH6: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ICH6: port 0x01f0 already claimed by ide0
ICH6: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [Device USB Device] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1
input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Device USB Device] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[20] MMIO=[cffff800-cfffffff] Max Packet=[2048]
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe800, 00:11:2f:ea:fd:85, IRQ 21
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101'
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e0180000b67254]
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02f0500(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
Vendor: Generic Model: USB SD Reader Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: Generic Model: USB CF Reader Rev: 1.01
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
Vendor: Generic Model: USB SM Reader Rev: 1.02
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 2
Vendor: Generic Model: USB MS Reader Rev: 1.03
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Attached scsi removable disk sde at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 3
usb-storage: device scan complete
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found
drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

Realtek HD Audio

I cannot find any version info, but searching realtek prooves there is only 1 Realtek HD Audio driver.

You could try running alsaconf and see if it detects any soundcards. If it does it should set everything up for you.

alsaconf does not exist.

Not only does alsaconf not exist but when I open the GUI alsamixer there is no selected mixer.

Now I do believe I got the drivers fully installed.

The driver installation fails saying:
"alsaconf" is not installed.