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I installed a Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio SB1040EF (CA0110-IBF) in my system, and no sound. I've seen a bunch of older references to problems with this card, and most seemed to relate to snd-ctxfi; which I have enabled in my kernel. The snd-hda-intel module seems to want to service this card, and running "aplay -L" gives the following which looks good (I think):

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    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

default:CARD=Generic

    HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Analog

    Default Audio Device

front:CARD=Generic,DEV=0

    HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Analog

    Front speakers

surround40:CARD=Generic,DEV=0

    HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Analog

    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers

surround41:CARD=Generic,DEV=0

    HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Analog

    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround50:CARD=Generic,DEV=0

    HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Analog

    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers

surround51:CARD=Generic,DEV=0

    HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Analog

    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround71:CARD=Generic,DEV=0

    HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Analog

    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers

iec958:CARD=Generic,DEV=0

    HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Digital

    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

output from lsmod |grep -i snd is (note I did a manual modprobe snd-ctxfi, no help):

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snd_ctxfi              72167  0 

snd_hda_codec_ca0110    5328  1 

snd_hda_intel          18904  2 

snd_hda_codec          51822  2 snd_hda_codec_ca0110,snd_hda_intel

snd_hwdep              5428  1 snd_hda_codec

snd_pcm_oss            31781  0 

snd_mixer_oss          12663  1 snd_pcm_oss

snd_pcm                60513  4 snd_ctxfi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss

snd_seq_midi            4406  0 

snd_rawmidi            15618  1 snd_seq_midi

snd_seq_midi_event      4730  1 snd_seq_midi

snd_seq                42040  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event

snd_timer              16049  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq

snd_seq_device          4491  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq

snd                    46095  17 snd_ctxfi,snd_hda_codec_ca0110,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device

soundcore              4630  1 snd

snd_page_alloc          6025  3 snd_ctxfi,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

dmesg contains these complaints:

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[  499.783729] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000

[  516.034117] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000

My system is an ECS 7050M-M mobo with an AMD Phenom 9750 quad core, 4GB RAM, a bunch of disks, PCR-150 vid capture, and a serial port. I nominally use Debian Squeeze, but with a custom kernel compiled from 2.6.32.9. I tried to install the latest alsa, but ran into compile problems due to kernel incompatibilities and didn't feel like playing hunt the wumpus with that.

So, what do I look for? I don't really have a good understanding of sound system setup. All I did to install this board was disable the mobo realtek sound adapter, install this card, and boot it up.