[ILUG] Intrepid Ibex - audio broken

[Gerard Cunningham]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:08 +0000, John Allen wrote:
> Gerard Cunningham wrote:
> > Having upgraded a Scaleo P Fujitsu Siemens desktop from Ubuntu 8.04 to
> > 8.10, I now have no sound. The first hit on a Google search is a page
> > from ubuntuforums on audio problems with Ibex, which times out. Not
> > encouraging.
> >
> > Clicking on the volume/speaker icon, I get an error saying the volume
> > control did not find and elements or devices to control. I either don't
> > have the right Gstreamer plugins installed, or don't have a sound card
> > configured.
> >
> >   
> Had a similar problem with a kernel upgrade.
> 
> The upgrade did not install linux-ubuntu-modules, therefore no sound device.
> 
> Make sure the correct linux-ubuntu-modules for you installed kernel is 
> installed.


OK.  Now how do I do that?

I'm an end user beginner, I'm afraid you're going to have to spell out
the command for me (literally)