Sound card not found anymore

Question

I started my ubuntu today and Audio card was not working. Card is not even listed with lshw. No device with description like physical id: 1b (I remember the old device settings).

Any ideas?

Solution

This can be caused by any number of things, you should take a look at the Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide on the Ubuntu Forums

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Exerpt from the Guide:

(2) Type this into the shell: Code:

lspci -v

Success - At this point, you should see your sound card listed. This is a positive sign because it means that Ubuntu is detecting the presence of your soundcard, but the drivers are not installed/running. Leave your shell running since you will need it.

Failure - If it is not listed, then there are a few things that you can do.

• If your soundcard is an onboard sound card, then it might be disabled in the system's BIOS. You will have to reboot and hit the key that lets you enter into the BIOS (usually Delete, F2, or F.

• If your soundcard is not onboard, make sure that it is properly seated in the PCI slot. If your card is working under Windows then this is not a problem.

Comments

[Stefan]

did you update/install/change anything recently?

[Andrew Serebryansky]

No update recently

[Stefan]

what is the output when you lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t or ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders ?

[Uri Cohen]

Might it simply have slipped out of its socket?

[Andrew Serebryansky]

@Stefan ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders result: ls: cannot access /sys/module/snd/holders: No such file or directory

[Andrew Serebryansky]

@Stefan lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t result: nothing

[Andrew Serebryansky]

@fschmitt it's onboard sound card

[Stefan]

@amra, wow... well... take a look at the link in my answer... hope it helps

[Andrew Serebryansky]

lspci doesn't list audio card. I checked BIOS and it's enables. I think this is final stage :o(

[Stefan]

did you try re-installing all the drivers?