Ubuntu Multimedia :: Initial Diagnostics As Suggested In The Stickie?
Mar 26, 2010
I just loaded ubuntu 9.10 on an old PIII in dual boot mode with win98SE. The pc has a DS-XG YMY470 Yamaha sound card, and the sound is available in Win98SE. In ubuntu, there is no sound while playing games or playing music. I tried the initial diagnostics as suggested in the stickie with the following results:
aplay l
aplay: device_list:223: no soundcard found...
lspci v
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller : Yamaha Corporation DS1L Audio
Flags : medium devsel, IRQ 12
Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [Size=32k]
Capabilities : <access denied>
Kernel modules : snd-ymfpci
Is there any way to get the sound started, or do I need to change this card ?
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--My System------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Processor(s)Processor- 1CPU_Name- Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9600 @ 2.80GHz
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Quote:
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Quote:
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My laptop recently died and I have invested in a new desktop. The specs are as follows code...
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Code:
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