Hi Rick, it maybe that Ubuntu is not auto-detecting the card, and therefore does not load the module. I have a DELL machine which has a similar issue, I have to 'modprobe' the sound drivers before the sound will work.
I would suggest that you friend does an 'lsmod' after doing the 'aslaconf', this will show the list of all installed modules. The sound driver will be something like 'snd-cs4236'. He can then 'sudo vim /etc/modules' (or whichever editor he is happy with) and include the module name at the end of the file. This will force the module to loaded at boot time. Good luck, Simon. On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:17:30 -0700 Rick Norman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > A friend of mine just did a fresh install of Lenny on an older machine, and > everything seems to work well except for the sound card. When he boots, > there is no sound at all until he runs alsaconf. That fixes the problem for > the duration of the session, but the instant he reboots the problem comes > back again--it's a Sound Blaster 128, so it's an older card. > > Any ideas or suggestions on how I could help him fix it? He is dual booting > with XP, and the sound card works fine there, so I don't think it's a > hardware related issue. > > Thanks for any input. > > Rick _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
