I have just installed Xubuntu on an old laptop, I am having sound problems that is no sound at all, through games,music or system sounds. I do however know that the sound drivers are there and the system is not muted

Can Any one help me

What card do you have?

It is an integrated audio card on an intel system on an older gateway laptop. when I have the laptop in front of me I can give you the exact driver information

card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel 82801DB-ICH4]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Rioworks Unknown device 202f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at e400
I/O ports at ee80
Memory at e02ff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at e02ff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: <access denied>

Found great article

Ok I was having sound problem but This Ubuntu forum had a section that was awsome and helped me fixe the problem I am bringing this her so anyone else who needs help with this type of problem can find it eaiser

here is the link
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449&highlight=build+module+shell

I hope that this helps some people