Re: [orca-list] Help with Ubuntu 10.04 and sound card recognition

["Milton" <milton tomaatnet nl>]

Last week I did a fresh install for a friend. We also didn't had any sound 
while Orca came up running. With a sighted person we found out that the 
sound was muted in System > Preferences ? Sound. By unchecking the mute 
option  everything went fine.
Milton
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason White" <jason jasonjgw net>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Help with Ubuntu 10.04 and sound card recognition


> Edu Camargo <edumusico gmail com> wrote:
>
> > I've tested the AMD64bits version, and after some investigation I
> > got stuck into the following:
> > Booted through Live CD with the accessibility with screen reader
> > enabled, Ubuntu loaded propperly, except sound. Checked the sound
> > control with sighted assistance, the levels are shown as if it was
> > possible to hear something. Then I've tried the alsamixer utility
> > and, to my surprise, The only card recognized by the alsamixer was
> > the Audiophile 2496, which for some reason I was not expecting it to
> > be this way. The built-in sound card is enabled via the BIOS.
>
> If the live CD allows you to do this, run sshd, set a root password and 
> log in
> using ssh from another machine.
>
> It might simply be that the volume settings need to be changed. First, run
> aplay -l to find out for sure which cards have been recognized. You should 
> be
> able to use amixer to change the settings (e.g., to increase the volume).
> Other programs that may help are:
> lshw to obtain hardware details, and lsmod to find out what kernel modules 
> are
> loaded - there should be one for each sound card, plus the Alsa modules.
>
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