[olug] Sound Card Problems

[Shannon]

have you tried a live cd to verify the onboard card has failed?

have you connected the pc speakers up to something else to make sure
they still work as well?  I would check the wire to make sure it wasnt
pinched.

if you are fairly sure the on board is bad. I would boot into the bios
and disable the on board sound. this might also help with the add in
card.  here you could also use a live CD to see if it is really a
software issue.

On 10/15/08, Russell Monaghan <russellmonaghan at cox.net> wrote:
>
>
>     Hello. I'm in dire need of a fix to this issue, cause I've been
> without sound for about two weeks straight now, and I don't have any
> patience while working unless I have my music. I have an Ensoniq 1371
> sound card that I got from another box after the on-board Intel stuff
> quit on me. It worked OK sometimes, meaning that if I ever rebooted,
> there was a good chance the card wouldn't be initialized on boot.
> Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. It seemed to depend on the
> number of USB devices connected at the time, but I think that could've
> just been coincidence. After I upgraded to Hardy recently, it quit
> working altogether. Like I said, I don't think the card gets initialized
> at boot, from what I can tell. I do have the ens1371 module set to load
> on boot, which is the correct driver. But apparently the card doesn't
> want to cooperate.
>
> I attached the entire dmesg output, in case all the other pci stuff is
> relevant.
>
> And here's lspci:
>
>> 02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06)
>>     Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI64V, AudioPCI128
>>     Flags: slow devsel, IRQ 18
>>     I/O ports at dcc0 [size=64]
>>     Capabilities: <access denied>
> Here's for the on-board sound, too. It gets set up alright, and ALSA has
> no problem playing to it, I just don't hear anything from the speakers.
> I think it got fried during one of the nice storms we had:
>
>> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
>> (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
>>     Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0126
>>     Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
>>     I/O ports at c800 [size=256]
>>     I/O ports at cc40 [size=64]
>>     Memory at fe300400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
>>     Memory at fe300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
>>     Capabilities: <access denied>
>
> *asoundconf -l *only lists the Intel audio, and the asoundconf set card
> or whatever the command is doesn't work cause alsa doesn't see the
> Ensoniq card. I know Ensoniq stuff is a pain to get working, but any
> help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> R.T. Monaghan
>
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