Ubuntu live cd :(

[luciusad2004]

Thank you. Ill give that a try and see what i can work out. Also signed up for the Ubuntu forums but didn't get around to looking so much. They were so huge i sort of got overwhelmed lol

Edit: forgot to mention. I don't know if i posted it earlier but it could be a hardware issue. I had XP on this computer before as it was going to be for my gf. I was bored and she didnt plan on useing it since she got her mac so i decided i would try out Ubuntu.

Anyway long story short i couldn't really get sound when i had XP on here. Im not sure if i just need some sound drivers or what (Im assuming motherboard drivers since its on board sound???)

I dont think its an MP3 thing. I tried playing some of the media in the "examples" folder and it wouldn't work. I believe it was an Ogg file. I also tried a CD and that wouldn't work either.

Any way, thanks for the help! +rep : D

[.Maleficus.]

It isn't a motherboard board driver thing, because there isn't such a thing. Init loads all necessary drivers at boot, such as SATA, IDE, etc. You probably don't have multimedia codecs installed, which is what Automatix is for. It will give you an option to install those. Actually, do this for me.

dmesg
lspci
lsmod

Post anything that relates to sound/sound devices. You might need to load a kernel module too.


Edit: Nah, just post all of the lspic and lsmod, and sound related things at dmesg.

[luciusad2004]

Ok, ill do that for you when i get home. I'm at my girlfriends for the weekend so I'll either do it Sunday night or Monday. Thanks again.

[Drew]

One word:

ubuntuforums

There are some proper clever buggers there. just post in the total beginners forum, you'll be sussed.

And for mp3 playing, you want VLC media player. Ubuntu hasn't got native mp3 support 'cos of American copyright laws or something.

Welcome to the Linux revolution my friend and comrade in Ubuntu arms.

[luciusad2004]

Ok here is some of the stuff you asked for.

lspci:

charles@charles-desktop:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
0000:00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
0000:00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
0000:00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus MasterIDE (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3344 (rev 01)
charles@charles-desktop:~$

lsmod:

charles@charles-desktop:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  265728  6
rfcomm                 40216  0
l2cap                  26244  5 rfcomm
bluetooth              49892  4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev                   9220  0
speedstep_lib           4484  0
cpufreq_userspace       4696  0
cpufreq_stats           5636  0
freq_table              4740  1 cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_powersave       1920  0
cpufreq_ondemand        6428  0
cpufreq_conservative     7332  0
video                  16260  0
tc1100_wmi              6916  0
sony_acpi               5644  0
pcc_acpi               12416  0
hotkey                 11556  0
dev_acpi               11140  0
container               4608  0
button                  6672  0
acpi_sbs               19980  0
battery                 9988  1 acpi_sbs
i2c_acpi_ec             5120  1 acpi_sbs
ac                      5252  1 acpi_sbs
dm_mod                 58936  1
af_packet              22920  4
md_mod                 72532  0
lp                     11844  0
tsdev                   8000  0
snd_seq_dummy           3844  0
snd_seq_oss            33536  0
snd_seq_midi            9376  0
snd_seq_midi_event      7552  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                51984  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
usbhid                 39904  0
prism2_usb             77060  0
parport_pc             35780  1
parport                36296  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
snd_via82xx            28824  2
gameport               15496  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec         93088  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus            2304  1 snd_ac97_codec
pcspkr                  2180  0
snd_pcm_oss            53664  0
snd_mixer_oss          18688  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                89864  4 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              25220  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         10632  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         7808  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            25504  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8716  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd                    55268  14 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
via_rhine              23940  0
psmouse                36100  0
floppy                 62148  0
mii                     5888  1 via_rhine
serio_raw               7300  0
soundcore              10208  1 snd
i2c_viapro              8980  0
shpchp                 45632  0
pci_hotplug            29236  1 shpchp
i2c_core               21904  2 i2c_acpi_ec,i2c_viapro
rtc                    13492  0
via_agp                 9856  1
agpgart                34888  1 via_agp
evdev                   9856  2
ext3                  135688  1
jbd                    58772  1 ext3
ide_generic             1536  0
ehci_hcd               34184  0
uhci_hcd               33680  0
usbcore               130692  5 usbhid,prism2_usb,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
ide_cd                 33028  0
cdrom                  38560  1 ide_cd
ide_disk               17664  3
via82cxxx               9988  0 [permanent]
generic                 5124  0
sata_via               10116  0
libata                 78992  1 sata_via
scsi_mod              139496  1 libata
thermal                13576  0
processor              23360  1 thermal
fan                     4868  0
capability              5000  0
commoncap               7296  1 capability
vga16fb                13704  1
vgastate               10368  1 vga16fb
fbcon                  42784  72
tileblit                2816  1 fbcon
font                    8320  1 fbcon
bitblit                 6272  1 fbcon
softcursor              2304  1 bitblit
charles@charles-desktop:~$

What was it you wanted after i entered dmsg? I looked and i only saw one line that to me appeared to be audio related. Keep in mind that that looking at this stuff is to me like looking at hieroglyphics.

[17179601.252000] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input0

@Drew

Thanks for the Welcome. I don't that ill make much of a revolutionary as im still pretty attached to commercial software. Im happy to be part of the community though. I'm mainly trying to get in to Linux just to have some fun. I was also thinking that, being open source and all, it would give me something to maybe work with a little bit as i go through college. I want to learn how to work with it now so that maybe in the future i can work on it. I'm looking to get in to software development some day so this sort of gives me something to study and play with until i get a nice job. Not that ill ever get lucky enough to work on a major operating system or anything... i can dream though.

One question, what do you mean by ill be "sussed"?

Thanks for the welcome

[Drew]

sussed -

As in 'to get it sussed' = to get it figured out. Can also be said as 'it's OK, I sussed it out'.

Easy to forget how many Americans are on here... the .com ought to give it away.

Oh, and 'mucka' is like mate, as in 'alright mucka?'

Here end british slang lesson 1. Lesson 2, 'advance swearology', at the same time tommorow.

:edit: They actually are hyroglyphics - malefificus and the other Linux hounds can actually read them. they're like historians, or ancient rune scholars. All hail the Linuxians.

:edit2: Sorry. It's late, my teeeth are playing up like mary hell and I'm a bit confused. Forgive me for talkin crap.

[.Maleficus.]

Well luciusad, I really don't know for this one. As you can see by the lspci command, you have a Via AC97 multimedia controller, and you seem to have all necessary AC97 codecs, but that may still be the problem. I'm still going to recommend using Automatix2 to install the codecs, but other than that, I'm not sure.

[luciusad2004]

sussed -

As in 'to get it sussed' = to get it figured out. Can also be said as 'it's OK, I sussed it out'.

Easy to forget how many Americans are on here... the .com ought to give it away.

Oh, and 'mucka' is like mate, as in 'alright mucka?'

Here end british slang lesson 1. Lesson 2, 'advance swearology', at the same time tommorow.

:edit: They actually are hyroglyphics - malefificus and the other Linux hounds can actually read them. they're like historians, or ancient rune scholars. All hail the Linuxians.

:edit2: Sorry. It's late, my teeeth are playing up like mary hell and I'm a bit confused. Forgive me for talkin crap.

Ah i understand now. At first i thought it had something to do with Linux.

Well luciusad, I really don't know for this one. As you can see by the lspci command, you have a Via AC97 multimedia controller, and you seem to have all necessary AC97 codecs, but that may still be the problem. I'm still going to recommend using Automatix2 to install the codecs, but other than that, I'm not sure.

Thanks for trying. +rep for that. I honestly don't know how you got anything out of all that code lol.

One more question. For this Automatix2 do i need to have an internet connection or can i find the files i need and download them to another computer and transfer them over a flash drive.

Thanks for all of the help

[.Maleficus.]

You don't have it over the internet? Hmm... I don't think you'll really want, because it's just like installing a program using apt-get, except it has a GUI and some frequently used packages. You'll have to find dependencies, and all sorts of stuff, but I suppose it could be done, but you'll probably just have to do a Google search for like "linux multimedia codecs" and find them in a .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz form, extract them, and then build from source. That really isn't any big deal, but the finding of them might be.

And no problem man!

[luciusad2004]

I guess if i get some free time (ha, i have NOTHING BUT free time... im just lazy) i can drag the PC out to my living room and hook it up to the network. Then i can run Automatix2 from there.

The only other option would be to see if my parents USB wifi receiver will work with Ubuntu. I plugged it in but i had no clue were to go to set it up. Overall the lack of sound wont really be a problem. My stereo is a yard or two away, in fact... i was going to run the sound through my stereo.

I guess i should have taken a better look at what i was getting in to lol.

Thanks for the help guys if i get it worked out ill let you know.