Public bug reported: I have so far been unable to get sound to work on my new mainboard in Karmic. This is a gigabyte ep43-ds3l, this is the output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 6 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIB (ICH10) LPC Interface Controller 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce GTS 250] (rev a2) 03:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB368 IDE controller 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) snd-hda-intel is loaded, and seems to recognize the device, but then it reports "no codecs initialized" and I end up with no soundcard available: $ dmesg |tail [ 13.592559] CPU1 attaching sched-domain: [ 13.592561] domain 0: span 0-1 level MC [ 13.592562] groups: 1 0 [ 15.929484] cscotun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions [ 19.636019] eth3: no IPv6 routers present [ 110.378130] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 [ 110.378173] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 30 for MSI/MSI-X [ 110.378194] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 110.408565] ALSA hda_intel.c:1408: no codecs initialized [ 110.408624] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A disabled $ cat /proc/asound/cards --- no soundcards --- All sound-problem howtos and such which I can find kind of assume that alsa finds the card and it just needs proper configuration, so I'm kinda stuck... ProblemType: Bug AlsaDevices: total 0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 1 2009-12-20 18:35 seq crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 2009-12-20 18:35 timer AplayDevices: aplay: device_list:223: no soundcards found... Architecture: i386 ArecordDevices: arecord: device_list:223: no soundcards found... AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/timer', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/sequencer', '/dev/sequencer2'] failed with exit code 1: Date: Sun Dec 20 18:52:32 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic-pae SourcePackage: alsa-driver Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic-pae i686 ** Affects: alsa-driver (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 -- ALSA hda_intel.c:1408: no codecs initialized https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498836 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs