Added sound card, no onboard audio no more

i added an sb live value for the use of the joystick port only, not wanting to use ti as a sound card. the onboard audio of my 865pe neo2 fis2r msi 6728 no longer works. so how can i get back my onboard audio? my speakers are still plugged into the onboard. is this even posible? to use onboard audio, but use my joystick on the sb live card when playing games? or is it only one or the other? do i need to go into the bios maybe and tell it to use onboard audio? like maybe it changed cus of the new sb live value card?
ok, i hooked up my speakers to the sb live card, it's fine i guess , but is it possible to use onboard audio with joystick port only from the live card? or because i have a sound card installed now, does that totally disable onboard completely unless i removed the live card?

Yep No is the Answer, Because as soon as Windows Sees that you have a PCI sound card, it will not allow the Onboard sound chips Drivers to Load upon Bootup, I cant believe that you went through the Trouble of Installing a Sound Card that has a "MIDI" port, Instead of just Getting a USB Joystick , as the New USB Joysticks are Much more Responsive and Support Many More Games, and You can Get one For Less $ then you Paid for the Soundblaster .....Sean REILLY875

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[SOLVED] USB sound card problems and audio setup

I want to clarify and correctly set up my ThinkPad T61 sound system finally.
I'm running Arch64 + KDE.
There are two sound cards - the internal HDA Intel and external USB CM118.
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Set [C-Media USB Headphone Set], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
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First of all, why are there both analog and digital subdevices?
I just need playback and/or recording support for these applications: opera, firefox, skype, clementine, mplayer, vmplayer. As high quality as possible.
Per-application sound control would be nice but if that adds too much clutter, I could live without it. No need for audio streaming or any other luxuries.
All the applications should use the USB card whenever it's plugged in. The internal SC should take over when CM118 is unplugged.
The problem is that most of the time it doesn't work. For example, if I plug out the USB card and then run some application like Clementine or Firefox there would be no sound ("connection refused" in Clementine).
Here is my asound.conf:
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.ctl.card 0
Also kMix/amix should switch the master channel from HDA Intel Master to C-Media Master automatically. The only way to do this is to write some kind of script, right?
AFAIK the following audio components are installed: ALSA, OSS (for some unknown reason), Phonon, Gstreamer.
I guess I can uninstall OSS without worries as no one seems to need it (checked with "whoneeds").
What about that Phonon? Would it override the asoud.conf if I set default device there? Why there are so many different devices in the Phonon configuration list:
C-Media USB Headphone Set, USB Audio (Default Audio Device)
C-Media USB Headphone Set (USB Audio)
C-Media USB Headphone Set, USB Audio (IECblablabla)
hw:1,0
hw:1,1
default
Intel Analog
Intel Digital
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And that C-Media triplet for every USB port the CM118 has been plugged in.
Too much confusion! All that mess for just two different cards.
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Last edited by andrisll (2012-07-19 08:48:28)

I am sorry for my very late response and the lack of structure in my post.
I did some investigation and found a rather acceptable workaround for one of my problems described below.
Here is the basic functionality I need:
1. Automatic (on the fly) switching to the external sound card when it's plugged in and automatic fallback to the integrated SC when usb is unplugged.
2. Automatic (on the fly) switching of the kMix's master channel according to the changes mentioned above.
As for the first problem, I found this udev rule:
KERNEL=="pcmC[D0-9cp]*", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#pcmC}; K=$${K%%D*}; echo defaults.ctl.card $$K > /etc/asound.conf; echo defaults.pcm.card $$K >>/etc/asound.conf"
KERNEL=="pcmC[D0-9cp]*", ACTION=="remove", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'echo defaults.ctl.card 0 > /etc/asound.conf; echo defaults.pcm.card 0 >>/etc/asound.conf'"
This solution has some disadvantages but it is acceptible. If you know of any better solution, please tell me.
For the second problem, I found this script which uses qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster method to set the master channel. However, I think that constant monitoring for the usb SC being plugged is not very effective. So I thought appending the following code to the second line of the previous udev rule would do the work:
, RUN+="/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster "ALSA::C-Media_USB_Headphone_Set:1" "Speaker:0""
But that results in some weird behaviour: master channel stays the same but there would be three new tabs in the kMix window now: USB Set", USB Set# and USB Set$.
Here's what log messages tell us:
07/14/12 12:25:13 PM localhost kernel [10889.749048] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 13 using uhci_hcd
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost kernel [10889.914921] input: C-Media USB Headphone Set as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.3/input/input21
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost kernel [10889.915454] generic-usb 0003:0D8C:000C.000C: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Device [C-Media USB Headphone Set ] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-1/input3
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe checking bus 3, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1"
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe checking bus 3, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1"
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe checking bus 3, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1"
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe checking bus 3, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1"
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07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe bus: 3, device: 13 was not an MTP device
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And here is an excerpt from udev debugger:
starting '/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster '
'/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster '(err) 'Could not connect to D-Bus server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11'
'/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster ' [2769] exit with return code 1
'/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster '(err) 'Could not connect to D-Bus server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11'
Some kind of X11 problem... And also happening twice! Why?
Running the setCurrentMaster method in terminal works very nicely, so the problem must be the way udev runs it.
One last thing - sometimes the usb SC automatically reconnects (disconnects and connects). I read somewhere that most probably the usb device makes the trouble, but maybe there are other possiblities?
Last edited by andrisll (2012-07-14 10:04:16)

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Since a month or too, after one of my weekly updates, wine started to select the wrong sound card for its audio playback. Thus, alas, no sound in wine applications.
When selecting the audio tab in winecfg, I get the following console output:
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HDA NVidia, disabling mixer
fixme:jack:JACK_drvLoad error loading the jack library libjack.so.0, please install this library to use jack
I don't use jack, so that can be ignored. The HDA NVidia - the S/PDIF on my NVidia video card I presume, I don't use either. What I do use is my onboard sound chip in combination with alsa, which works perfectly on non-wine applications.
So, I got the following set up:
$ cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_hda_intel
1 snd_hda_intel
$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT1818S Analog [VT1818S Analog]
Subdevices: 2/2
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: VT1818S Digital [VT1818S Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
$ ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 21 12:14 snd_hda_codec -> ../../snd_hda_codec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 21 12:14 snd_hda_codec_hdmi -> ../../snd_hda_codec_hdmi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 21 12:14 snd_hda_codec_via -> ../../snd_hda_codec_via
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 21 12:14 snd_hda_intel -> ../../snd_hda_intel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 21 12:14 snd_hwdep -> ../../snd_hwdep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 21 12:14 snd_pcm -> ../../snd_pcm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 21 12:14 snd_seq -> ../../snd_seq
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 21 12:14 snd_seq_device -> ../../snd_seq_device
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 21 12:14 snd_seq_oss -> ../../snd_seq_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 21 12:14 snd_timer -> ../../snd_timer
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snd_hda_codec_hdmi 22593 4
snd_hda_codec_via 52963 1
snd_seq_dummy 1479 0
snd_seq_oss 29240 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5516 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50562 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 5281 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_intel 21837 1
snd_hda_codec 74577 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_via,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6222 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 72321 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 19537 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 58906 12 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_via,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
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Also note the weirdness of having two identical modules for card 0 and card 1. I guess the chip on the video card is Intel as well. I this possible?
Now the list of things I tried, all without a positive result.
First, I completely reconfigured my alsa set up.
Secondly, I blacklisted snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi in /etc/rc.conf
Thirdly, I used the info from http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys to force wine to use card0:
AutoScanCards=N
AutoScanDevices=N
DeviceCTL1=hw:0
DevicePCM1=hw:0
Fourthly, I edited .asoundrc to force alsa to use only card0:
# define soundcard to use, hw0:0
pcm.!default {
type hw
card SB
# device 0
# define control device to use, hw0:0
ctl.!default {
type hw
card SB
# device 0
Finally, I tried the above globally in /etc/asound.conf
I even waited two wine updates to see if that would fix it.
All above did not solve the sound issue and winecfg still gives the same error output as before.
Note that the sound works fine in everything, except in wine.
Anyone has any ideas or insight?

Hi!
Similar problem here
[zom@myhost ~]$ winecfg
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HDA NVidia, disabling mixer
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HDA NVidia, disabling mixer
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winemp3.acm": libmpg123.so.0: no se puede abrir el fichero del objeto compartido: No existe el fichero o el directorio
fixme:winmm:proc_PlaySound Couldn't play header
fixme:winmm:proc_PlaySound Couldn't play header
[zom@myhost ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
[zom@myhost ~]$ cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_hda_intel
1 snd_hda_intel
I will follow some of your steps and research a bit to see if I can find something.
Please remember to post if you get it working!
Regards,
Edit:
Seems the card is not well specified in your /etc/asound.conf
% cat /etc/asound.conf
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm {
type hw
card 0
device 3
I think you should put the device also, as shown on your "aplay -l". Try and let me know (I will try asap).
Edit: Forget what I just said and just follow strictly the wine wiki page. In my case it was a problem when installing lib32-openal from the repos. It gave an error and did not install the first time, but I thought it was removed from the repos and wasn't needed anymore.
Last edited by Darkzom (2011-03-24 01:00:55)

Setting ALSA sound card system wide (rather than just in KDE)

Hi,
I've got an HTPC with an ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics card running Arch x86. It has its own integrated sound card for outputting audio via HDMI, which is detected by ALSA as a separate device. I've managed to set it as the default audio device in KDE 4 (via System Settings). This allows applications such as Amarok and SMPlayer to properly output audio to the HD 4350's integrated sound card, but software such as Flash and MPlayer (from the command line) are still outputting audio to the motherboard's built-in sound card. How can I change this setting on a system-wide level? I've tried running alsaconf as root and adding
pcm.!default {
type hw
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to ~/.asoundrc; I got the card and device numbers from aplay:
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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
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Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.4.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
137 audio & 296 video codecs
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mplayer: No such file or directory
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[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
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Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
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==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
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[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
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[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory
[JACK] cannot open server
[AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '2'
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
[AO SDL] Unable to open audio: No available audio device
DVB card number must be between 1 and 4
AO: [null] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 854 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 854x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12
Thanks!
Last edited by w1ntermute (2009-06-28 18:40:03)

whoops wrote:Do you use the motherboard sound-card?
No.
whoops wrote:If not - did you try just turning it off in bios (or blacklisting the driver)?
No, I haven't tried that. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the tip!
Last edited by w1ntermute (2009-07-02 18:11:53)

Recommended sound card for Oracle Redhat Linux 64 bit?

Dear Experts,
I'm trying to install the latest Oracle Redhat 5.
64 bit. On a certified Asus motherboard.
It will be a dual boot windows/Linux machine.
And I'm having an awful time with the sound card for my new server.
(It will be used for learning, at home. It's important to
have sound for some instructional videos that I will also watch.)
Other installs, sound has installed and worked fine.
I believe it's partially because the sound came directly off
the motherboard in those cases.
But with this new server, it came with a sound card, no onboard.
The sound card works with windows. But not with Linux.
I've been swapping three sound cards in and out, trying to get
one to work. Each has some partial success, but none meet all
of the requirements (below).
What is really frustrating is that I want the sound to go
to the green headphone jack on the front of the computer case.
To do this, there is a cable that connects the sound card, to
the front of the chassis.
The existing sound card that I have, has a connector for this.
It is an "HD audio", or an AC 97 connector. There two rows of
five pins, with one pin blocked up, so that the connector is
inserted in the correct manner. The cord is hard wired to the case.
You can see some images of the pins and the cords here:
http://support.creative.com/kb/showarticle.aspx?sid=14133
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94769
http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/Intel2/4001152/4001152mvr20.shtml
http://www.e4allupgraders.info/dir1/ecase/support/front_panel_support.shtml
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27289176
You would figure that whether the connector existed or not would be a standard
feature that would be listed for sound cards. But it's rare to find it listed anywhere.
When I went to the computer store, I had to open all the boxes to see if it
was there or not!!!! Manufacturers, this is not that difficult!!
At this point, after a couple of days of struggle, I just want to buy a
simple sound card that works right out of the box.
Here are the requirements:
- gets instantly recognized by Linux (Oracle Redhat 5) 64 bit, and plays sound
with the standard Linux drivers. I believe I have all of the drivers installed,
because a few cards do play with them automatically. During installation, I
installed Every package available.
- no installation of special Linux drivers required.
- the other big requirment is that the card have output to an HD Audio,
or AC 97 connector, and will play music through the headphone jack.
(Believe it or not, I have one card that works fine out the back,
but won't work through the HD Audio. But it works fine in Windows)
- will also work with Windows 64 bit.
Does anyone have any good sound card recommendations that will meet all these requirements?
Thanks a lot!

Almost a year later... what have you been listening too? :-)
I have to admit that I'm not an expert for "sound" under Linux. I think you may find http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page interesting. It also shows which sound cards are compatible.
ALSA is pretty much standard under Linux and stands for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Together with pulse-audio it provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system and is, by default, also included in RHEL and other descendants. You can install pulseaudio support using the EPEL repository following the instructions at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
wget rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
yum list alsa* pulseaudio*
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ULN support will be disabled.
Installed Packages
alsa-lib.i386                            1.0.17-1.el5           installed
alsa-lib.x86_64                          1.0.17-1.el5           installed
alsa-utils.x86_64                        1.0.17-1.el5           installed
Available Packages
alsa-lib-devel.i386                      1.0.17-1.el5           ol5_u7_base
alsa-lib-devel.x86_64                    1.0.17-1.el5           ol5_u7_base
alsamixergui.x86_64                      0.9.0-0.3.rc1.el5      epel
pulseaudio.x86_64                        0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
pulseaudio-core-libs.i386                0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
pulseaudio-core-libs.x86_64              0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64          0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
pulseaudio-libs.i386                     0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
pulseaudio-libs.x86_64                   0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
etc.Edited by: Dude on Dec 8, 2011 7:02 PM

Two sound cards but no sound

I'm having problems to enable the sound on my home destop pc.
I've got two sound cards one onboard and one I bought later.
Alsa is installed and everything is unmuted but it still dosen't work. What can I do to solve the problem?

upload=true&script=true&cardinfo=
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.59
!!Script ran on: Thu Aug 19 09:11:56 UTC 2010
!!Linux Distribution
Arch Linux \r (\n) (\l)
!!DMI Information
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Dell DM051
!!Kernel Information
Kernel release: 2.6.34-ARCH
Operating System: GNU/Linux
Architecture: i686
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
SMP Enabled: Yes
!!ALSA Version
Driver version: 1.0.22.1
Library version: 1.0.23
Utilities version: 1.0.23
!!Loaded ALSA modules
snd_cmipci
!!Sound Servers on this system
ESound Daemon:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/esd)
Running - No
Jack:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/jackd)
Running - No
!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
0 [CMI8768 ]: CMI8738-MC8 - C-Media CMI8768
C-Media CMI8768 at 0xcc00, irq 18
!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
03:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
!!Advanced information - PCI Vendor/Device/Susbsystem ID's
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01)
Subsystem: 1028:01d2
01:00.0 0300: 10de:0402 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
03:02.0 0401: 13f6:0111 (rev 10)
Subsystem: 13f6:0111
!!Modprobe options (Sound related)
snd-pcsp: index=2
!!Loaded sound module options
!!Module: snd_cmipci
enable : Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y
fm_port : 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1
id : (null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null)
index : -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
joystick_port : 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
mpu_port : 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
soft_ac3 : Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y
!!ALSA Device nodes
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Aug 19 11:09 /dev/snd/controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Aug 19 11:09 /dev/snd/midiC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Aug 19 11:09 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Aug 19 11:10 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Aug 19 11:09 /dev/snd/pcmC0D1p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Aug 19 11:09 /dev/snd/pcmC0D2c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Aug 19 11:09 /dev/snd/pcmC0D2p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Aug 19 11:09 /dev/snd/seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Aug 19 11:09 /dev/snd/timer
/dev/snd/by-path:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Aug 19 11:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 240 Aug 19 11:09 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 19 11:09 pci-0000:03:02.0 -> ../controlC0
!!Aplay/Arecord output
APLAY
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CMI8768 [C-Media CMI8768], device 0: CMI8738-MC8 [C-Media PCI DAC/ADC]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CMI8768 [C-Media CMI8768], device 1: CMI8738-MC8 [C-Media PCI 2nd DAC]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CMI8768 [C-Media CMI8768], device 2: CMI8738-MC8 [C-Media PCI IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
ARECORD
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CMI8768 [C-Media CMI8768], device 0: CMI8738-MC8 [C-Media PCI DAC/ADC]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CMI8768 [C-Media CMI8768], device 2: CMI8738-MC8 [C-Media PCI IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
!!Amixer output
!!-------Mixer controls for card 0 [CMI8768]
Card hw:0 'CMI8768'/'C-Media CMI8768 at 0xcc00, irq 18'
Mixer name : 'CMedia PCI'
Components : ''
Controls : 41
Simple ctrls : 22
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%]
Simple mixer control '3D Control - Switch',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Capture [off]
Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Synth',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Front Left: Playback 24 [77%] [on] Capture [off]
Front Right: Playback 24 [77%] [on] Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch cswitch penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Front Left: Playback 13 [42%] [on] Capture [off]
Front Right: Playback 13 [42%] [on] Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Line-In Mode',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'Line-In' 'Rear Output' 'Bass Output'
Item0: 'Line-In'
Simple mixer control 'CD',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch cswitch penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Front Left: Playback 6 [19%] [on] Capture [off]
Front Right: Playback 6 [19%] [on] Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined cvolume cvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Capture channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Capture 0 - 7
Mono: Playback 6 [19%] [on] Capture 0 [0%] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Capture channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on] Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic-In Mode',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'Mic-In' 'Center/LFE Output'
Item0: 'Center/LFE Output'
Simple mixer control 'Phone',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 7
Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 5V',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Copyright',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 In Monitor',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 In Phase Inverse',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 In Select',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 In Valid',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Loop',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Output',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 3
Mono: Playback 2 [67%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Aux',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch cswitch penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 15
Front Left: Playback 6 [40%] [on] Capture [off]
Front Right: Playback 6 [40%] [on] Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Four Channel Mode',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
!!Alsactl output
--startcollapse--
state.CMI8768 {
control.1 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 31'
iface MIXER
name 'Master Playback Volume'
value.0 31
value.1 31
control.2 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name '3D Control - Switch'
value true
control.3 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'PCM Playback Switch'
value true
control.4 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'PCM Capture Switch'
value.0 false
value.1 false
control.5 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 31'
iface MIXER
name 'Synth Playback Volume'
value.0 24
value.1 24
control.6 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Synth Playback Switch'
value true
control.7 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 4
iface MIXER
name 'Synth Capture Route'
value.0 false
value.1 false
value.2 false
value.3 false
control.8 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 31'
iface MIXER
name 'CD Playback Volume'
value.0 6
value.1 6
control.9 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'CD Playback Switch'
value.0 true
value.1 true
control.10 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 4
iface MIXER
name 'CD Capture Route'
value.0 false
value.1 false
value.2 false
value.3 false
control.11 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 31'
iface MIXER
name 'Line Playback Volume'
value.0 13
value.1 13
control.12 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'Line Playback Switch'
value.0 true
value.1 true
control.13 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 4
iface MIXER
name 'Line Capture Route'
value.0 false
value.1 false
value.2 false
value.3 false
control.14 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 1
comment.range '0 - 31'
iface MIXER
name 'Mic Playback Volume'
value 6
control.15 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Mic Playback Switch'
value true
control.16 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Mic Capture Switch'
value false
control.17 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 1
comment.range '0 - 3'
iface MIXER
name 'Beep Playback Volume'
value 2
control.18 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 15'
iface MIXER
name 'Aux Playback Volume'
value.0 6
value.1 6
control.19 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'Aux Playback Switch'
value.0 true
value.1 true
control.20 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'Aux Capture Switch'
value.0 false
value.1 false
control.21 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Mic Boost Playback Switch'
value true
control.22 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 1
comment.range '0 - 7'
iface MIXER
name 'Mic Capture Volume'
value 0
control.23 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 1
comment.range '0 - 7'
iface MIXER
name 'Phone Playback Volume'
value 0
control.24 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Phone Playback Switch'
value true
control.25 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Beep Playback Switch'
value true
control.26 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Mic Boost Capture Switch'
value false
control.27 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Four Channel Mode'
value true
control.28 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type ENUMERATED
comment.count 1
comment.item.0 Line-In
comment.item.1 'Rear Output'
comment.item.2 'Bass Output'
iface MIXER
name 'Line-In Mode'
value Line-In
control.29 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Output Switch'
value true
control.30 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 In Valid'
value true
control.31 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Copyright'
value true
control.32 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 5V'
value true
control.33 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Loop'
value true
control.34 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 In Monitor'
value true
control.35 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface PCM
device 2
name 'IEC958 Playback Default'
value '0082000200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
control.36 {
comment.access read
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface PCM
device 2
name 'IEC958 Playback Con Mask'
value ffffffff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
control.38 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 In Select'
value true
control.39 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 In Phase Inverse'
value true
control.40 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type ENUMERATED
comment.count 1
comment.item.0 Mic-In
comment.item.1 'Center/LFE Output'
iface MIXER
name 'Mic-In Mode'
value 'Center/LFE Output'
control.41 {
comment.access 'read write user'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.tlv '0000000100000008ffffec1400000014'
comment.dbmin -5100
comment.dbmax 0
iface MIXER
name 'PCM Playback Volume'
value.0 255
value.1 255
--endcollapse--
!!All Loaded Modules
Module
ipv6
fuse
snd_seq_dummy
snd_seq_oss
snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss
snd_mixer_oss
snd_cmipci
gameport
snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc
snd_opl3_lib
snd_timer
snd_hwdep
snd_mpu401_uart
snd_rawmidi
snd_seq_device
usbhid
hid
usb_storage
snd
soundcore
led_class
evdev
nvidia
i2c_i801
iTCO_wdt
iTCO_vendor_support
intel_agp
uhci_hcd
e100
mii
psmouse
i2c_core
agpgart
dcdbas
thermal
sg
button
rt2870sta
pcspkr
processor
serio_raw
ehci_hcd
usbcore
rtc_cmos
rtc_core
rtc_lib
ext3
jbd
mbcache
sr_mod
cdrom
sd_mod
ata_piix
pata_acpi
libata
scsi_mod
!!ALSA/HDA dmesg

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My notebook PC's sound card is onboard 915pm (ICH6M), Audio codec is ALC880. When I use hwd, it can not find the sound card. Then I use alsaconf, it find snd-hda-intel. After I " modprobe snd-hda-intel", xmms can work with mp3 file, but there is no sound output from my speaker.
Why ???

I have this sound card and I was able to get it to work with standard and archck kernels. But there are some bugs and sound sounds corrupted(it's fixed in 2.6.16). Compiling these modules in to the kernel helps a little. But you sould get it to work without any problems.

I have a mistirious sound card...

Hello, I have bought a computer from DELL , i don't remember excetly but about more then .5 year ago, and i bought it with sound blaster sound card.
Now I have reinstaled Windows and my sound cards works but Audio Control panel cannot reconise it and control it.
I don't know wich sound card do i have. But windows saies it is Sound Blaster X-Fi.
I have installed the latest driver with Windows atomatic update because no Driver on Sound Blaster Web site works with mine.
My sound card has the same connectors on the back as X-Fi Titanium PCI EXpress but my sound card uses PCI slot not PCI Express but on te web site I cannot see like it.
My sound card support 3 different modes: Games, Entertament, Audio Recording
My model number is: SB0770
Serial Number: MASB0773837R0644K
So ok, i went to this page http://support.creative.com/kb/ShowA....com,case=0846 to find out wich sound card do i have, but there is no sound card in the list with my Model number.
p.s.
So please sound blaster give me the link to the latest Drivers and Control Panel with will work with my card

%Thanks, but that did not work at all,
I was brouwsing internet and i found out that this card wixch is Sb0770 is spesial edition of Dell, wich is very similar to specs of sound blaster X-Fi Titanium, wich uses PCI instid of PCI express slot.. but, drivers from original X-Fi Titanium does not work with it, it requairs a spesial drivers.
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unfortionaly on the Dell web site i could not find drivers pack for this sound card, but i was able to find fresh drievers on it's competitor web site wich works with Vista SP2 very well, so now can anjoy sound.
p.s.
I am profesional musician and i did not play games to much, but now i have a little bit more time, i know what sound good and what sounds bad, Unfortionaly this card and i suppouse all sound Blaster cards has cheap D/A converters so sound is not that good , but fortionaly this card has a digital ADAT output, so i can connect it directly to my RME Fireface audio interface and the sound is realy better....

NEW SOUND CARD NEEDED FOR HOME PC, HOW TO CHOOSE AND INST

I am running Windows XP on Home PC bought 2003. The sound card is integral with the motherboard. Now the soundcard is not working. I have done tests, including headphones to output jack in the PC, no sound. No mute buttons are ticked. The speakers seem fine. So question is: can I buy a Creative sound card, and put it in the PC myself? I have Video Logic ZXR-500 5. Channel Speaker System. Motherboard info: Gigabyte 7VAX, KT400, DDR, 8X AGP, USB 2, LAN, 6Ch AC97. Sound Card info: Onboard 6 Channel AC97 Audio. The company who built the PC have closed down. I would like to use my PC to play CD and listen to Radio, Video cli
ps.
I do not use it for gaming. Please let me have your advice. I could pay somebody to fix the new sound card, which I should like to buy from Creative, but also not sure which sound card to buy, or if this is possible, since the existing soundcard cannot be removed. Maybe I could try an external sound card via USB? Many thanks. Halton

Hi Halton,
For listening to music and internet radio any of our cards should be fine, the budget cards are for instance
Sound Blaster Li've! 24-bit
Audigy SE
Audigy 2 Value
Regarding disabling the onboard audio, I can't give you a set of specific instructions, as this can differ per motherboard. Usually you can get into the BIOS by holding the Delete key (when specified) during the boot process. The BIOS screen is usually a blue background with white text. Onboard audio could be listed as "AC97" (which you set to enable or disable). If your PC or motherboard came with a manual, it may have some detail on how to change this.
CatMessage Edited by Catherina-CL on 02-3-2006 2:56 PM

Configure audio card for streaming audio via internet

I have a Pavilion Slimline s7320n PC. How can I configure the sound card for streaming audio for the internet?

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Can't record the sound card or internet rad

I have Vista with sound blaster audigy advanced MB factory installed. I installed Roxio 9 and I can't hear what I'm recording from line-inbut I can hear it after it's saved.
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Funko wrote:
I want to record the original piano sound of my Yamaha Clavinova in garage band...
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#recordkeyboardssounds
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

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