do you mean that there is no mono internal speaker in the desktop ? please proivrthe pulseaudio verbose log
** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1087905 Title: no audio output device with ens1371 Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Dell Dimension L700CXE desktop, was running 11.05, but on upgrading to 11.10 and then to 12.05 the sound device has vanished; the modules are loaded, the device appears in lspci, but on the sound config Output or Input panel there are no devices listed and the output volume slider is greyed out. it must be something simple I'm overlooking, because so much of this looks perfectly normal. All users are added to the audio /etc/group # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810 GMCH (Graphics Memory Controller Hub) (rev 03) 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801AA IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA USB Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801AA SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) 01:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 09) 01:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01) 01:0b.1 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01) $ lsmod | grep snd snd_hrtimer 12648 1 snd_ens1371 24819 0 gameport 15060 1 snd_ens1371 snd_ac97_codec 110178 1 snd_ens1371 ac97_bus 12642 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 80845 2 snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_midi 13132 0 snd_rawmidi 25424 2 snd_ens1371,snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq 51567 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 28931 3 snd_hrtimer,snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 14172 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq snd 62064 8 snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 14635 1 snd snd_page_alloc 14115 1 snd_pcm # cat /proc/asound/card0/audiopci Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371 Joystick enable : off Joystick port : 0x200 # cat /proc/asound/devices 1: : sequencer 2: [ 0- 0]: raw midi 3: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback 4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 5: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 6: [ 0] : control 33: : timer if I rmmod ens1371 and then modprobe it, dmesg reports [ 1643.444096] snd_ens1371 0000:01:09.0: BAR 0: set to [io 0xdf00-0xdf3f] (PCI address [0xdf00-0xdf3f]) [ 1643.444143] snd_ens1371 0000:01:09.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1087905/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp