I recently changed my Desktop PC from Windows XP to Ubuntu 7.10 (yay for me!), but, i had several issues... one of them (the less urgent) is that my Creative Audigy SoundBlaster 0090 doesn't show any signs of life... though, the interesting part is that it is fully installed and fully recognized by ubuntu... i've tried installing every related package, including the ALSA related, but nothing works... so any help would be appreciated...
ndeniche 402 Posting Virtuoso Featured Poster
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
Can you post the results of running lspci and lsmod at the terminal? Also, you might want to play around with alsamixer (another command-line program). You can toggle the mute status of a channel by hitting the 'm' key, up and down arrows control the volume, left and right change which channel is currently selected, and 'escape' exits the program.
ndeniche 402 Posting Virtuoso Featured Poster
how specific do you need it? with hexadecimals and everything?
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
Just copy and paste the output that results from running those commands.
ndeniche 402 Posting Virtuoso Featured Poster
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03)
00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 03)
00:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] (Secondary) John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
Well, I'd definitely agree with you that your audio card's been detected. What's the output of lsmod ?
ndeniche 402 Posting Virtuoso Featured Poster
that's the lspci output...
the following is the lsmod output:
Module Size Used by
nls_cp437 6784 1
isofs 36412 1
udf 87204 0
af_packet 24840 2
fglrx 656352 15
ipv6 273892 12
rfcomm 42136 2
l2cap 26240 11 rfcomm
bluetooth 57060 4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev 10244 0
speedstep_lib 6404 0
cpufreq_stats 7232 0
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_userspace 5280 0
cpufreq_ondemand 9612 0
freq_table 5792 2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
cpufreq_conservative 8072 0
sbs 19592 0
dock 10656 0
container 5504 0
button 8976 0
video 18060 0
ac 6148 0
battery 11012 0
sbp2 24072 0
lp 12580 0
sg 36764 0
snd_via82xx 29848 0
snd_mpu401_uart 9984 1 snd_via82xx
sr_mod 17828 1
snd_seq_dummy 4996 0
snd_seq_oss 35712 0
snd_emu10k1_synth 8448 0
snd_emux_synth 36736 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 8448 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 7936 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_emu10k1 139296 2 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_midi 9728 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8576 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi 26112 4 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi
snd_ac97_codec 101284 2 snd_via82xx,snd_emu10k1
parport_pc 37412 1
parport 37448 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
ac97_bus 3456 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 44800 0
snd_mixer_oss 18048 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 81156 4 snd_via82xx,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 11272 3 snd_via82xx,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 6016 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
serio_raw 8068 0
snd_hwdep 10628 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
pcspkr 4224 0
snd_seq 54640 9 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 24580 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9740 8 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
i2c_viapro 10004 0
i2c_core 26112 1 i2c_viapro
psmouse 39952 0
snd 56708 18 snd_via82xx,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
emu10k1_gp 4736 0
gameport 16776 3 snd_via82xx,emu10k1_gp
soundcore 8800 1 snd
shpchp 34580 0
pci_hotplug 32704 1 shpchp
via_agp 11264 1
agpgart 35016 2 fglrx,via_agp
evdev 11136 4
ext3 133896 1
jbd 60456 1 ext3
mbcache 9732 1 ext3
ide_cd 32672 0
cdrom 37536 2 sr_mod,ide_cd
ide_disk 18560 3
usb_storage 73024 1
libusual 18448 1 usb_storage
via82cxxx 10372 0 [permanent]
ide_core 116804 4 ide_cd,ide_disk,usb_storage,via82cxxx
sata_via 12548 0
floppy 60004 0
via_rhine 25992 0
mii 6528 1 via_rhine
ehci_hcd 36492 0
ata_generic 8452 0
libata 125168 2 sata_via,ata_generic
scsi_mod 147084 5 sbp2,sg,sr_mod,usb_storage,libata
uhci_hcd 26640 0
usbcore 138632 5 usb_storage,libusual,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
ohci1394 36528 0
ieee1394 96312 2 sbp2,ohci1394
thermal 14344 0
processor 32072 1 thermal
fan 5764 0
fuse 47124 1
apparmor 40728 0
commoncap 8320 1 apparmor John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
Have you checked that all your channels are unmuted with alsamixer ?
ndeniche 402 Posting Virtuoso Featured Poster
all of them are unmuted except for Mic Boost , Optical Raw , Audigy Analog Output Jack , and External Amplifier
ndeniche 402 Posting Virtuoso Featured Poster
they're not actually unmuted... but it won't let me raise their volume
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