Sound problem

[david walcroft]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 October 2007 01:56, david walcroft wrote:
>   
>> Nigel Henry wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>>> See how you get on, and post back please.
>>>
>>> All the best.
>>>
>>> Nigel.
>>>       
>> I have done the items you suggested but with no luck,I suppose the
>> possibility is that my sound card is faulty....
>>
>>   david
>>     
>
> Ok David. Don't give up on the sonicvibes card just yet.
>
> As you've now made the changes to /etc/modprobe.conf. please post your 
> current /etc/modprobe.conf, also the output of cat /proc/asound/cards, which 
> should now show 2 cards, the sonicvibes one as card0, and the intel one as 
> card1.
>
> What did you get from running alsamixer on the CLI (konsole)? Did you get 
> mixer settings for the sonicvibes card?
>   
What do mean by running Alsamixer,allsliders are set to high.

> And starting alsamixer as "alsamixer -c 1" (without the quotes), did you get 
> mixer settings for the intel card?
>   
[david at reddwarf ~]$ alsamixer -c 1
wrong -c argument '1'


> What music app are you using to test your soundcard?
>   
Kmenu-Administration-soundcard detection
> Running speaker-test should produce some pink noise out of your speakers, as 
> long as the speakers are connected to the soundcard. To cancel the 
> speaker-test use ctrl + c.
>   
Tesing using the above gives nothing
> I've also posted to the alsa-user list to see if there are any known problems 
> with snd-sonicvibes driver, and also did a bit of googling. the card looks 
> like it should work OOTB.
>
> It's annoying not to have sounds. My audigy2 soundblaster works ok, and on the 
> other machine the ensoniq card also works, but it's frustrating when you 
> can't get your card to produce sounds.
>
> Nigel.
>
>   
Etc/modprobe

alias eth0 8139too
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
# install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0: && 
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
# remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; 
}; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
# Set this to the correct number of cards.
options snd cards_limit=4
options loop max-loop=32
remove snd-sonicvibes { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; 
}; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-sonicvibes
alias snd-card-0 snd-sonicvibes
options snd-card-0 index=1
alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-1 index=1
options snd-sonicvibes index=0
alias net-pf-10 off
#2C module options
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
alias eth1 8139too

[david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [SonicVibes     ]: SonicVibes - S3 SonicVibes
                      S3 SonicVibes rev 3 at 0xef60, irq 23
[david at reddwarf ~]$

Thanks david