Make linux detect sound card

I installed a sound card but when I go to System->Preferences->Sound and go to Hardware it's not showing anything at all. If I boot from the Live CD then it will show the card and it works. How can I make my Linux installation detect this card?

I was thinking that I could somehow copy the necessary files from the Live CD to make this work, but maybe there's an easier way.

tony_sid

Posted 2010-08-06T13:44:30.843

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If sound works with the live CD, it should work with an installed system too. Are you running the same kernel on both (if in doubt, post the output of uname -a on both)? On the live CD, what driver is used (ls -l /sys/class/sound/audio/../../../driver/module)? Are there any messages related to this driver in /var/log/kern.log? – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' – 2010-08-06T18:02:39.107

The kernel has been updated from the Live CD. There's a lot of messages in /var/log/kern.log. What should I be looking for? – tony_sid – 2010-08-07T04:36:17.493

in /var/log/kernl.log, you should be looking at least for the module name, and for keywords like sound and audio and snd and alsa; there may be stuff not covered by these keywords, and there I'm afraid I can't say any better than anything that catches your eye. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' – 2010-08-07T09:48:45.533

Please post the link that you get when you download http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh and run it with bash (NOT sh)

– maco – 2010-08-14T02:52:55.487

Didn't work. I think the problem is not with Alsa since the system doesn't even see the sound card. I think Alsa is just a way to communicate with the sound card, but detecting sound card hardware is probably some other program's job. – tony_sid – 2010-08-06T14:12:22.597

I'm not using ubuntu but it is alsa (kernel module) job to detect sound card. Possibly it is job of another program to install sound driver. – Maciej Piechotka – 2010-08-06T15:32:55.093

Make linux detect sound card

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