Install sound driver on Linux Ubuntu

[Harigopal]

Hello everyone, I have a problem which I want a solution to. I have HP g42-357tu series laptop and I have installed Linux ubuntu 10.04 along with Windows 7 Home Basic. I had a slight problem with sound card so I replaced it but still no sound is coming. My friend suggested that I should install sound driver for the card, but I have no idea how to install the driver on Ubuntu. Can you help me in showing how to install it? I really want to have the sound on my PC back, so please do help me with it. Thanking you in advance.

[Badrunath]

Greetings, I see that you want to install the driver for sound. But you haven’t mentioned what sound card are you using? You said that you replaced the sound card, if it is the same card that you have replaced then you must have a CD along with it. I am sure there are drivers in that CD. So just install them from the CD. If you have internet connection, Go to System->Administration->Additional Drivers and it will download the driver accordingly. If it finds it, just click on the driver to install it. Good Luck my friend.

[MahaGuru]

I went to the location you pointed but in "Administration" there is no "additional Drivers" option. There is only "hardware driver" option. I don’t know anything about the sound card, but let me tell you this whenever I play the sound with my headphone on I can hear the sound, but not with normal speaker. The speaker and the connectors of speaker are fine, there’s no problem with that. I think its’ the problem only with the setting of my ubuntu, if only I could know how to correct it, I would be really happy.

[GeforceUser]

If you can hear the sound on your headphone and not your speaker that means that the sound driver are installed fine and no need to install it again. Go to terminal and type:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
options snd-card-0 enable=1 index=0 model=basic 
options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 model=basic

and save it. If this doesn’t work, run gnome-controller and try switching by check/uncheking Speaker and headphones.