I have done something to break the sound under Gutsy Gibbon. I think the
problem began when I installed kruler but I am not sure. My machine will
dual boot Gutsy or Fedora Core 7 and the sound works fine under Fedora so
I know my hardware is okay.

I have tried going to system->preferences->sound (gnome-sound-properties)
and that doesn't solve anything. I have the sound events, music and
movies, and audio conferencing set to autodetect. I don't understand the
use of the default mixer tracks. I can select one, but then I don't see
how to manipulate it to do anything.

I have also gone applications->other->sound and applications->other-
>sound system, the KDE control module. I have tried working with /usr/
bin/alsamixer, which is a vt-100 style program. I can manipulate the
controls but I can't make a beep of noise.

The KDE control module says that the sound driver is 3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA
v1.0.14 emulation code)
Kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
Config options 0

Installed drivers
type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
VIA 8235 with ALC650F at 0xe400 irq 21

Audio devices:
0: VIA 8235 (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
31: system timer

Mixers
0: Realtek ALC650F

lspci -vv reports:
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/
A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VAX Onboard Audio (Realtek
ALC650)
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
SERR- Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 21
Region 0: I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME
(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-


Many thanks,


Jeff Silverman