Asus Xonar DGX no rear sound / mic. Front panel sound/mic ok. [SOLVED]

Question

Hi guys,
I have a ASUS Xonar DGX PCI-E GX2.5 sound card since my onboard audio crapped out on my motherboard. I just did a first time install on my desktop and the rear portion of my card refuses to work. If I connect up my speakers to my analog output in the back I don't have any options in my sound manager for the analog output to just be a 2.0 system. I get 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1. All of which do not work obviously. Also my microphone doesn't work plugged into the actual card. If I plug them into the front panel audio, both the microphone and headphone out work. I did some searching, and it seems like a likely cause has something to do with amixer being multichannel. I tried several commands but wasn't successful in getting the audio to work through the back. Any help would be useful, I'm still trying to learn a lot about Arch while doing all this. Thanks in advance!
Solution. Using Alsamixer in terminal and selecting the analog out as stereo headphones, instead of stereo headphones (fp).
Last edited by 15goudreau (2014-08-04 21:56:36)

Answer 1

Search for vid and pid combination, ergo 13f6:8788 in your case. This should be one of the search terms, vid and pid could be also separated, other search terms could include oxygen, sonar, dgx and so on. Simple google search should turn something up.
Edit: The point is to locate a thread/post where the support for this card was implemented/talked about. It could provide some further insight.
The simplest approach would be to download linux-rt sources from aur with yaourt, modify PKGBUILD, compile and then install.
yaourt -G linux-rt
cd linux-rt
Copy this into PKGBUILD replacing the original:
# Maintainer: Joakim Hernberg <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Ray Rashif <[email protected]>
# Contributor: timbosa <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Tobias Powalowski <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Thomas Baechler <[email protected]>
pkgbase=linux-rt
pkgname=('linux-rt' 'linux-rt-headers' 'linux-rt-docs') # Build realtime patched -rt kernel
#pkgname=linux-custom # Build kernel with a different name
_kernelname=${pkgname#linux}
_basekernel=3.14
_releasever=12
_rtpatchver=rt9
pkgrel=1
_pkgver=${_basekernel}.${_releasever}
pkgver=${_basekernel}.${_releasever}_${_rtpatchver}
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/"
license=('GPL2')
makedepends=('xmlto' 'docbook-xsl' 'kmod' 'inetutils' 'bc')
options=('!strip')
source=("https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-${_basekernel}.tar.xz"
"https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-${_pkgver}.xz"
"https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/${_basekernel}/patch-${_pkgver}-${_rtpatchver}.patch.xz"
# the main kernel config files
'config' 'config.x86_64'
# standard config files for mkinitcpio ramdisk
"${pkgname}.preset"
'change-default-console-loglevel.patch'
'0001-Bluetooth-allocate-static-minor-for-vhci.patch'
'0002-module-allow-multiple-calls-to-MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE-p.patch'
'0003-module-remove-MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE.patch'
'0006-genksyms-fix-typeof-handling.patch'
'0007-asus-xonar-dgx.patch')
md5sums=('b621207b3f6ecbb67db18b13258f8ea8'
'89a5af1f3609d0c27e63fea298dd80ed'
'2aa3614e488efa939007a1c428406c30'
'a8126ad28c0a902a575397cacd099db2'
'843119a441c942efc5ec4b73c3c6ced5'
'eb14dcfd80c00852ef81ded6e826826a'
'6623d69fdc936d707990ca060dabd2ce'
'6839ddec74a5300beff1709a81b0e4f3'
'706549e8a05f33f7fc697f28c0ca71d2'
'd23fc66be93ebce698bd7da844789de1'
'16a161979f846b049e90daea907c35dd'
'SKIP')
prepare() {
cd "${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}"
# add upstream patch
msg "apply patch-${_pkgver}"
patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/patch-${_pkgver}"
# add realtime patch
msg "applying patch-${_pkgver}-${_rtpatchver}.patch"
patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/patch-${_pkgver}-${_rtpatchver}.patch"
# add latest fixes from stable queue, if needed
# http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git
# set DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL to 4 (same value as the 'quiet' kernel param)
# remove this when a Kconfig knob is made available by upstream
# (relevant patch sent upstream: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/26/227)
msg "change-default-console-loglevel.patch"
patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/change-default-console-loglevel.patch"
# Fix vhci warning in kmod (to restore every kernel maintainer's sanity)
msg "0001-Bluetooth-allocate-static-minor-for-vhci.patch"
patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/0001-Bluetooth-allocate-static-minor-for-vhci.patch"
# Fix atkbd aliases
msg "0002-module-allow-multiple-calls-to-MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE-p.patch"
patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/0002-module-allow-multiple-calls-to-MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE-p.patch"
msg "0003-module-remove-MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE.patch"
patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/0003-module-remove-MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE.patch"
# Fix generation of symbol CRCs
# http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dc53324060f324e8af6867f57bf4891c13c6ef18
msg "0006-genksyms-fix-typeof-handling.patch"
patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/0006-genksyms-fix-typeof-handling.patch"
msg "0007-asus-xonar-dgx.patch"
patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/0007-asus-xonar-dgx.patch"
msg "All patches have successfully been applied"
if [ "${CARCH}" = "x86_64" ]; then
cat "${srcdir}/config.x86_64" > ./.config
else
cat "${srcdir}/config" > ./.config
fi
# if [ "${_kernelname}" != "" ]; then
# sed -i "s|CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=.*|CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=\"${_kernelname}\"|g" ./.config
# sed -i "s|CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=.*|CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=n|" ./.config
# fi
# set extraversion to pkgrel
#sed -ri "s|^(EXTRAVERSION =).*|\1 -${pkgrel}|" Makefile
# set localversion to pkgrel-rt
sed -i "s|CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=.*|CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=\"-${pkgrel}${_kernelname}\"|g" ./.config
# don't run depmod on 'make install'. We'll do this ourselves in packaging
sed -i '2iexit 0' scripts/depmod.sh
# get kernel version
make prepare
# load configuration
# Configure the kernel. Replace the line below with one of your choice.
#make menuconfig # CLI menu for configuration
#make nconfig # new CLI menu for configuration
#make xconfig # X-based configuration
#make oldconfig # using old config from previous kernel version
# ... or manually edit .config
# rewrite configuration
yes "" | make config >/dev/null
# stop here
# this is useful to configure the kernel
#msg "Stopping build"; return 1
build() {
cd "${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}"
make ${MAKEFLAGS} LOCALVERSION= bzImage modules
package_linux-rt() {
pkgdesc="The Linux Kernel and modules (with realtime preemption)."
#groups=('base')
depends=('coreutils' 'linux-firmware' 'kmod' 'mkinitcpio>=0.7')
optdepends=('crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country')
# provides=("kernel26${_kernelname}=${pkgver}")
# conflicts=("kernel26${_kernelname}")
# replaces=("kernel26${_kernelname}")
backup=("etc/mkinitcpio.d/${pkgname}.preset")
install=${pkgname}.install
cd "${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}"
KARCH=x86
# get kernel version
_kernver="$(make LOCALVERSION= kernelrelease)"
# _basekernel=${_kernver%%-*}
# _basekernel=${_basekernel%.*}
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}"/{lib/modules,lib/firmware,boot}
make LOCALVERSION= INSTALL_MOD_PATH="${pkgdir}" modules_install
cp arch/$KARCH/boot/bzImage "${pkgdir}/boot/vmlinuz-${pkgname}"
# add vmlinux
install -D -m644 vmlinux "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/vmlinux"
# set correct depmod command for install
cp -f "${startdir}/${install}" "${startdir}/${install}.pkg"
true && install=${install}.pkg
sed \
-e "s/KERNEL_NAME=.*/KERNEL_NAME=${_kernelname}/" \
-e "s/KERNEL_VERSION=.*/KERNEL_VERSION=${_kernver}/" \
-i "${startdir}/${install}"
# install mkinitcpio preset file for kernel
install -D -m644 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.preset" "${pkgdir}/etc/mkinitcpio.d/${pkgname}.preset"
sed \
-e "1s|'linux.*'|'${pkgname}'|" \
-e "s|ALL_kver=.*|ALL_kver=\"/boot/vmlinuz-${pkgname}\"|" \
-e "s|default_image=.*|default_image=\"/boot/initramfs-${pkgname}.img\"|" \
-e "s|fallback_image=.*|fallback_image=\"/boot/initramfs-${pkgname}-fallback.img\"|" \
-i "${pkgdir}/etc/mkinitcpio.d/${pkgname}.preset"
# remove build and source links
rm -f "${pkgdir}"/lib/modules/${_kernver}/{source,build}
# remove the firmware
rm -rf "${pkgdir}/lib/firmware"
# gzip -9 all modules to save 100MB of space
find "${pkgdir}" -name '*.ko' -exec gzip -9 {} \;
# make room for external modules
ln -s "../extramodules-${_basekernel}${_kernelname:--rt}" "${pkgdir}/lib/modules/${_kernver}/extramodules"
# add real version for building modules and running depmod from post_install/upgrade
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/lib/modules/extramodules-${_basekernel}${_kernelname:--rt}"
echo "${_kernver}" > "${pkgdir}/lib/modules/extramodules-${_basekernel}${_kernelname:--rt}/version"
# Now we call depmod...
depmod -b "$pkgdir" -F System.map "$_kernver"
# move module tree /lib -> /usr/lib
mv "$pkgdir/lib" "$pkgdir/usr"
package_linux-rt-headers() {
pkgdesc="Header files and scripts for building modules for linux kernel (with realtime preemption)."
# provides=("kernel26${_kernelname}-headers=${pkgver}")
# conflicts=("kernel26${_kernelname}-headers")
# replaces=("kernel26${_kernelname}-headers")
install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/modules/${_kernver}"
cd "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/modules/${_kernver}"
ln -sf ../../../src/linux-${_kernver} build
cd "${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}"
install -D -m644 Makefile \
"${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/Makefile"
install -D -m644 kernel/Makefile \
"${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/kernel/Makefile"
install -D -m644 .config \
"${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/.config"
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include"
for i in acpi asm-generic config crypto drm generated keys linux math-emu \
media net pcmcia scsi sound trace uapi video xen; do
cp -a include/${i} "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/"
done
# copy arch includes for external modules
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/x86"
cp -a arch/x86/include "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/x86/"
# copy files necessary for later builds, like nvidia and vmware
cp Module.symvers "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}"
cp -a scripts "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}"
# fix permissions on scripts dir
chmod og-w -R "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/scripts"
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/.tmp_versions"
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/${KARCH}/kernel"
cp arch/${KARCH}/Makefile "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/${KARCH}/"
if [ "${CARCH}" = "i686" ]; then
cp arch/${KARCH}/Makefile_32.cpu "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/${KARCH}/"
fi
cp arch/${KARCH}/kernel/asm-offsets.s "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/${KARCH}/kernel/"
# add docbook makefile
install -D -m644 Documentation/DocBook/Makefile \
"${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile"
# add dm headers
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/md"
cp drivers/md/*.h "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/md"
# add inotify.h
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/linux"
cp include/linux/inotify.h "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/linux/"
# add wireless headers
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/net/mac80211/"
cp net/mac80211/*.h "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/net/mac80211/"
# add dvb headers for external modules
# in reference to:
# http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9912
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/dvb-core"
cp drivers/media/dvb-core/*.h "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/dvb-core/"
# and...
# http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11194
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/config/dvb/"
cp include/config/dvb/*.h "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/config/dvb/"
# add dvb headers for http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/em28xx-new
# in reference to:
# http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13146
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/"
cp drivers/media/dvb-frontends/lgdt330x.h "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/"
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/i2c/"
cp drivers/media/i2c/msp3400-driver.h "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/i2c/"
# add dvb headers
# in reference to:
# http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20402
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb"
cp drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/*.h "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/"
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/dvb-frontends"
cp drivers/media/dvb-frontends/*.h "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/"
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/tuners"
cp drivers/media/tuners/*.h "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/tuners/"
# add xfs and shmem for aufs building
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/fs/xfs"
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/mm"
cp fs/xfs/xfs_sb.h "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/fs/xfs/xfs_sb.h"
# copy in Kconfig files
for i in `find . -name "Kconfig*"`; do
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}"/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/`echo ${i} | sed 's|/Kconfig.*||'`
cp ${i} "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/${i}"
done
chown -R root.root "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}"
find "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
# strip scripts directory
find "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/scripts" -type f -perm -u+w 2>/dev/null | while read binary ; do
case "$(file -bi "${binary}")" in
*application/x-sharedlib*) # Libraries (.so)
/usr/bin/strip ${STRIP_SHARED} "${binary}";;
*application/x-archive*) # Libraries (.a)
/usr/bin/strip ${STRIP_STATIC} "${binary}";;
*application/x-executable*) # Binaries
/usr/bin/strip ${STRIP_BINARIES} "${binary}";;
esac
done
# remove unneeded architectures
rm -rf "${pkgdir}"/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/{alpha,arc,arm,arm26,arm64,avr32,blackfin,c6x,cris,frv,h8300,hexagon,ia64,m32r,m68k,m68knommu,metag,mips,microblaze,mn10300,openrisc,parisc,powerpc,ppc,s390,score,sh,sh64,sparc,sparc64,tile,unicore32,um,v850,xtensa}
package_linux-rt-docs() {
pkgdesc="Kernel hackers manual - HTML documentation that comes with the Linux kernel (with realtime preemption)."
# provides=("kernel26${_kernelname}-docs=${pkgver}")
# conflicts=("kernel26${_kernelname}-docs")
# replaces=("kernel26${_kernelname}-docs")
cd "${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}"
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}"
cp -al Documentation "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}"
find "${pkgdir}" -type f -exec chmod 444 {} \;
find "${pkgdir}" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
# remove a file already in linux package
rm -f "${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile"
# vim:set ts=8 sts=2 sw=2 et:
Then create the file '0007-asus-xonar-dgx.patch' with the following content:
--- a/sound/pci/oxygen/oxygen.c 2014-08-01 20:45:20.299191180 +0200
+++ b/sound/pci/oxygen/oxygen.c 2014-08-01 20:46:11.179947117 +0200
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
{ OXYGEN_PCI_SUBID(0x10b0, 0x0219), .driver_data = MODEL_CMEDIA_REF },
{ OXYGEN_PCI_SUBID(0x13f6, 0x0001), .driver_data = MODEL_CMEDIA_REF },
{ OXYGEN_PCI_SUBID(0x13f6, 0x0010), .driver_data = MODEL_CMEDIA_REF },
- { OXYGEN_PCI_SUBID(0x13f6, 0x8788), .driver_data = MODEL_CMEDIA_REF },
+ { OXYGEN_PCI_SUBID(0x13f6, 0x8788), .driver_data = MODEL_XONAR_DGX },
{ OXYGEN_PCI_SUBID(0x147a, 0xa017), .driver_data = MODEL_CMEDIA_REF },
{ OXYGEN_PCI_SUBID(0x1a58, 0x0910), .driver_data = MODEL_CMEDIA_REF },
/* Asus Xonar DG */
Finally run makepkg, should there be errors try removing the src dir first 'yes|rm -r src', then run makepkg again. Should there still be an error post here.
As for the patch, should there be no real difference there is also MODEL_XONAR_DG, might be worth trying out.
Last edited by emeres (2014-08-01 22:34:05)