Hi there,

I am new in Kubuntu and I don't know why my playback devices are set to "Dummy Output". I really need to listen music. It is impossible for me keep writing my PhD thesis without music. Please any help would be aknowledge in my thesis .

Thanks

1st lets see if the system sees a sound card

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aplay -L

2nd lets see if the sound module are loaded, post back the results

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lsmod | grep snd

if you have an Intel chipset and snd_hda_intel is not listed run

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sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel

readings that might help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... 2500+sound

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iTl ... edit?pli=1

google01103 wrote:1st lets see if the system sees a sound card

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aplay -L

2nd lets see if the sound module are loaded, post back the results

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lsmod | grep snd

if you have an Intel chipset and snd_hda_intel is not listed run

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sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel

readings that might help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... 2500+sound

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iTl ... edit?pli=1

Hi there, thanks for reply me, I got these results:

herbert@herbert-HP-Pavilion-dv2500-Notebook-PC:~$ aplay -L
default
Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
pulse
Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
herbert@herbert-HP-Pavilion-dv2500-Notebook-PC:~$ lsmod | grep snd
herbert@herbert-HP-Pavilion-dv2500-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel
[sudo] password for herbert:
herbert@herbert-HP-Pavilion-dv2500-Notebook-PC:~$

I can only tell you that it appears that Kubuntu is not seeing your sound chip and maybe you should post on their forum

Is this your first experience with Linux? Maybe trying a different distribution would help, though a derivative of Ubuntu may have the same problem - if you were to try a different one I'd run from the live cd and see if it plays music before installing.