I went ahead and downloaded a wav file and ran the command.This is what comes up:

aplay /path/to/downloaded/wav
/path/to/downloaded/wav: No such file or directory

Move the downloaded wav to "Home" then rename it to "soundfile.wav"

Finally execute this command:

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aplay ~/soundfile.wav

Okay I moved the wav file to my home folder and renamed it and when i ran that code this is what came up

Playing WAVE '/home/danny/soundfile.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 Hz, Mono

Seems to be a probable sound driver issue. Do the following at terminal:

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sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-11-generic

And then reboot your system.

I went ahead and ran that command in the terminal and it did something to the computer and rebooted, unfortunately that did not solve my problem. I ran it again and this is what came up:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-11-generic is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

*Sigh*

The Aspire sound drivers were backported in Ubuntu some time back. Do you have a (meta)package called "linux-backports-modules" ?

I checked the Synaptic Package Manager and the one that I have installed is the

linux-backport-modules-2.6 2.6.27-11.12

there are 5 more that have not been installed, should I install those as well? Or would it just be a waste of memory?

Rest should contain packages for the server and older versions of them. You can try installing linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-11-server

You might as well want to take a look at this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto

Thanks

I've been checking out that website, I need to find out the name of my sound driver, what code would i need to run to find that out?