nForce 590 Audio not working in Ubuntu 8.10

[TheAlteredState]

Hey guys

So, as the title says, I've had no sound at all since installing 8.10 on my ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless mobo. Everything worked fine in 8.04 though...

It seems to pick up the nvidia drivers... there's just no sound....

My mind is still fresh in Linux, so I'm not really sure where to even begin

[rustypup]

this board appears to be a problem....

before doing anything else, have you tried the mechanics approach? (ie, twiddled the volume controls)

check if the card is detected

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lspci -v

(it will appear under multimedia)
also, check that there is a driver loaded

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cat /proc/asound/modules

this should spit out something along the lines of # snd_someDrvrID

if the device is detected, and the driver is loaded, try

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modprobe snd-someDrvrID

(someDrvrID is the id produced by the cat command above)

it is important to remember that 8.10 is a minor revision... 8.04 is LTS which means its stability will continue to improve and it will be supported for far longer...

[TheAlteredState]

lspci -v

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00:0e.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 81f6
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
	Memory at fe020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

cat /proc/asound/module

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 0 snd_hda_intel

modprobe snd-someDrvrID

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FATAL: Module snd_someDrvrID not found.

????????????

[TheAlteredState]

My sound seemed to work in 8.04 though... you think I should boot off the 8.04 live CD and run the same tests?

[rustypup]

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FATAL: Module snd_someDrvrID not found.

... yeah.. that should be

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modprobe snd-hda-intel

looks as if you have a driver loaded, though, which means driver issue... perhaps check launchpad for reported bugs...

[TheAlteredState]

Well... I dunno what happened, but my sound started working all of a sudden? Must have been something I installed