Setting Up Audio on a Server Install

Question

I'm running on a clean install of 10.10 Server edition and have alsa-base, alsa-tools, alsa-utils, alsaplayer, and alsa-firmware-loader installed. At one point I installed pulseaudio, but I have since removed it.

I've tried the following

lspci | grep audio
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
01:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X

aplay -l
aplay: device_list:235: no soundcards found...

alsamixer
can not open mixer: No such file or directory

When I search for modules with

find /lib/modules/`uname -r` | grep snd

I do get a list of modules

I'm not very experienced with alsa setup, so I'm not sure where to go from here

Solution 1

Adding myself to the user group "audio" solved my problem. I determined this was the problem when

sudo aplay -l

returned results about the audio card, but

aplay -l

returned nothing.

Command to run:

sudo useradd -aG audio your_username

You have to log out to get the change working.

Solution 2

The first thing to check is that the snd modules are being loaded, please check and report on the output of this command:

lsmod | grep snd

If that was the problem, next you should check the audio device available from those with this command:

cat /proc/asound/cards

If adding the sound modules doesn't work, then consider checking what hardware you have available with this command:

lspci | grep Audio

More information about debugging sound issues can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems

Comments

[LassePoulsen]

Is there any info regarding sound in the output from these commands: lsmod and dmesg (lsmod lists modules/drivers loaded, and dmesg displays debug messages from the system kernel.

[jan-glx]

Did you mean sudo usermod -aG audio your_username?