Asus Xonar DG PCI snd-oxygen module installation

LinuxEM64T · 10-09-2015, 04:24 AM

Hello people,

I've tried every recommendation on this great forum related to installing an Asus Xonar DG PCI snd-oxygen module on Fedora.
Nothing i can get to work with my skills.
If an expert knows how to get the driver to work and would like to access my PC remotely, let me know. I will be generous and make a purchase from an Amazon list or anything similar.

Below some extra info:
[user1@desk ~]$ uname -a
Linux desk 4.1.8-200.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 22 12:13:21 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[user1@desk ~]$ lspci -v | grep audio
06:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]
[user1@desk ~]$ lsmod | grep oxy
snd_oxygen 28672 0
snd_oxygen_lib 40960 1 snd_oxygen
snd_mpu401_uart 16384 1 snd_oxygen_lib
snd_pcm 118784 5 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_oxygen_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd 77824 22 snd_oxygen,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_oxygen_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_device

Thanks in advance.

Emerson · 10-09-2015, 09:16 PM

You could run amixer in a terminal and examine the output, there may be something muted you haven't noticed.

LinuxEM64T · 10-10-2015, 03:16 AM

Here is the output, all at 100%.
The sound mixer shows no devices either, that's the issue.

Code:

[user1@desk ~]$ amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
  Front Left: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]

Emerson · 10-10-2015, 06:17 AM

You may need to run it as root or with sudo.

Code:

lshw -C sound

Please paste output.

LinuxEM64T · 10-10-2015, 06:47 AM

looks like you're going the right way.
seems the unclaimed device is the one i need.
How do i claim it, and have the system ignore the Nvidia HDMI one?

Code:

[user1@desk alsa-firmware]$ sudo lshw -C sound
[sudo] password for user1: 
  *-multimedia            
       description: Audio device
       product: GK104 HDMI Audio Controller
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0.1
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
       version: a1
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
       resources: irq:51 memory:fe080000-fe083fff
  *-multimedia UNCLAIMED
       description: Multimedia audio controller
       product: CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]
       vendor: C-Media Electronics Inc
       physical id: 6
       bus info: pci@0000:06:06.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=32 maxlatency=24 mingnt=2
       resources: ioport:b000(size=256)

Emerson · 10-10-2015, 06:56 AM

One more question. Is this a discrete card or embedded to the motherboard?

ReaperX7 · 10-10-2015, 07:10 AM

You should try using an alsa.conf and assign the Xonar as the default, then use a user based .asoundrc to configure the output. The alsa website has better details on this than I can elaborate.

LinuxEM64T · 10-10-2015, 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emerson

One more question. Is this a discrete card or embedded to the motherboard?

it's a PCI discrete, ASUS Xonar DS PCI is the exact model.
I turned off the embedded motherboard one from the BIOS.

Emerson · 10-10-2015, 07:28 AM

OK, I did some google on this and it appears your card may have an additional power connector which must be plugged in to make the card work. Is this the case with your card?

LinuxEM64T · 10-10-2015, 07:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emerson

OK, I did some google on this and it appears your card may have an additional power connector which must be plugged in to make the card work. Is this the case with your card?

The problem is only Linux related, card works perfectly under Windows.
Any Fedora/RH or ubuntu based, LiveCD or hard install has this issue.

LinuxEM64T · 10-10-2015, 08:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7

You should try using an alsa.conf and assign the Xonar as the default, then use a user based .asoundrc to configure the output. The alsa website has better details on this than I can elaborate.

just followed the ALSA snd-oxygen instructions from their website. Doesn't work unfortunately.
How can i get the Asus sound device prioritized? Since sudo lshw -C sound returns that the audio controller is UNCLAIMED, but the Nvidia HDMI device is.
I would need to invert the two somewhere. any ideas?

Emerson · 10-10-2015, 08:07 AM

What is in dmesg regarding sound hardware initialization?

LinuxEM64T · 10-10-2015, 08:21 AM

Code:

[user1@desk alsa-driver]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xfe080000 irq 51

Why isn't the the below showing?

Code:

 *-multimedia UNCLAIMED
       description: Multimedia audio controller
       product: CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]
       vendor: C-Media Electronics Inc

LinuxEM64T · 10-10-2015, 08:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emerson

What is in dmesg regarding sound hardware initialization?

Code:

[user1@desk alsa-driver]$ dmesg | grep sound
[   66.136806] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card0/input9
[   66.137635] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card0/input10
[   66.140670] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card0/input11
[   66.140793] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card0/input12

Emerson · 10-10-2015, 08:27 AM

With grep snd?