Hi all. I had to re-install my perfectly working PC on 18.04LTS to 24.04…audio is not working.
The problem is the chip VIA1708S.
Alsa & pipewire configured correctly: no sound. Already tried to blacklist etc.
I also back checked with live usb with 22.04 and 20.04, also not working. A live usb with 18.04 sound just perfectly… How can it be possible that such a simple driver is not working anymore on new kernels?
TIA for you help
Hope you can fix it! But it is a kernel/version problem…as I said, it works on 18, but after that 20, 22 and 24 are not working…ordered a 10 bucks sound card from Ali…
Wait a second, sound isn’t working for you on 22.04 LTS? Cause sound was working just fine for me on 22.04 LTS.
Maybe a different problem. I tried with liveUSB from 18 working, and from 20 to 24 not working…
How old is your computer? Is it a laptop?
Desktop, AsRock mb, pretty old but works like a charm: Athlon II X4 with RAID1 disks
Moved to a new topic, as the two of you seem to have unrelated problems.
OK, the new card from Aliexpress, an CMI8738 based PCIexp, has arrived. Could not plug it in my PCIx4 slot (a chip in the middle) so I had to use a PCI full slot…ok, nothing else needed inside my PC…
Ubuntu 24.04 started, recognized the card and use it as a primary: we have SOUND. So end of the story…for me. Still the problem with a perfectly working (on up to 18.04) SB on the MB remain…
Joey - It seems the moderators on discourse have a totally different take on the way threads should be moderated, compared to the old UF way.
I too have been puzzled by the way @ian-weisser has taken issue with one of my posts being off-topic. To me it was completely relevant to the issue being discussed, the same as your post was relevant.
We will have to adjust to this new regime and try and work out just how these perfectly legitimate (in our eyes) responses are now somehow off-topic in this new wonderland.
It’s really annoying, but we have to remember we are guests here in their place, and their rules apply, no matter how weird they seem to us. It’s up to us to adjust not them.
Cheers Tony
You are not guests, you are the community and this site is the “Community Hub” 
Indeed both of you have issues with audio but they might be unrelated and it gets very hard to tell conversations apart between the two issues once there is a bit more traffic in a thread, Ian is just trying to prevent this
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@ogra Thanks for your response. The old UF way was to allow posts to meander into totally different discussions sometimes, so it will take us a bit of time to adjust. The idea was that although it may not be exactly related to the topic, these responses may help others with a slightly different issue but will save multiple threads with virtually the same subject matter.
I have already noticed that Discourse help threads are considerably shorter than was the case with UF, some threads went on for page after page.
As I said it’s up to the newcomers to adjust to your way of doing things, we should not attempt to impose our ways on you guys. After all, you are doing this for us all free and gratis, giving up your time to assist us. We should be grateful - and most are, but there may be some who expect more bang for their non-existant buck!
Cheers Tony
Again, I can only repeat myself here, there is no “us and them” here, it is all “us”, this forum is yours as much as it is mine or Ian’s and it is important that you bring up your concerns here, you should feel at home as much as all of us do…
But ask yourself how much sense it makes to have a thread called “my car doesn’t start” where the first person comes around and has an issue with the spark plugs, a second one comes in and has a flat battery third has a stuck air filter and so on…
Someone with a similar issue who comes in looking for help later will probably have replaced half of his engine before getting down to the actual problem his own car had, so partitioning the thread makes sense based on some details so that you can actually have a bit more focused solutions for more specific issues…
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