Thank you for the reply. It sounds like we are experiencing the same thing. But I think I solved the problem. I went into BIOS at startup tonight, and found that my onboard sound was set to Auto instead of Disabled. I disabled it years ago when I got the Audigy 2 sound card, so I assumed it was still disabled. I disabled it again, and have (re)booted 3 times tonight, and have had sound each time.
I wonder if some setup I've done (I've had Red Hat, Feisty and Gutsy on this machine at one time or another, as well as Windows) didn't root around in BIOS and reset the sound? I can tell the difference in sound between the cards(at least in Windows), so I suspect that it was Gutsy's setup that may have done that. I didn't have this problem with Feisty. I became suspicious when I sent in the bug report, and it showed the onboard sound. Another thing I noticed is that on initial installation of Gutsy, it installed the onboard sound. I repointed it to the Audigy 2 card, but it would reset itself at bootup. After I repointed it several times, it seemed to learn to leave the Audigy 2 setting alone, but the problem persisted until I rechecked BIOS tonight. We will see if BIOS stays the same over time. I am a newbie to Linux. Although I've had several versions on my computer over time, it was too daunting to be my primary OS, even though I've hated Windows for years. With Gutsy, that has changed. Although Windows is still on my computer, I officially fired Bill Gates last week, and haven't looked back since. Now, onto the next problem: No FSINFO sector, and not automatically creating it. Bootup hangs at that for about a minute. I found a command to use. I told the command to fix it. It said that it could render my system useless. It did. Had to start over. So, I've loaded Gutsy twice so far. I figure that's the only way to learn things. Thanks again. I hope this information helps. Jef Francl Stanley Sokolow wrote: > I have similar problem of erratic sound. After some bootloads the > system correctly plays sound at login and in applications (Firefox with > Flash plugin playing a streaming video from web site); other times sound > does not play. Seems to be random. Onboard sound is SiS SI7012. It > is disabled in the BIOS setup. PCI sound card is C-Media PCI IEC958. I > setup the sound preferences to use the C-Media PCI card. I'll play with > it some more to see if the wrong sound chip is detected and set as the > active sound device. Maybe Ubuntu can detect the "inactivated" sound > chip because it disregards the BIOS and can find the sound device on > motherboard by probing even though onboard chip is set as inactive in > BIOS. If that's what's happening, maybe this radomness is due to a > race condition where one or the other chip is detected first, depending > upon random fluctuations of some hardware device. > > -- Erratic sound availability https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157600 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
