Do Linodes Support Sound Cards?
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Hi on my VPS, I'm trying to enable sound within Lubuntu but for some reason I can't due to hardware or virtual controllers. Do you have any support with Audio ? or Does this not support audio at all?
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As a virtualized instance, your Linode does not have a sound card included as part of its resources.
You can try to compile a custom Linux Kernel with the dummy sound drivers available. The following links should help to point you in the right direction.
https://superuser.com/questions/344760/how-to-create-a-dummy-sound-card-device-in-linux-server for the specific modules
https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/custom-kernels-distros/custom-compiled-kernel-debian-ubuntu for how to compile and use a custom kernel.