Well, I was using my computer 1 night and the sound settings worked perfectly.
Then my speakers decided to go off at FULL BLAST in the middle of the night when the computer was OFF. ...woke my whole family up...
So after I was done being scared shitless, I ripped the Surge Protector out of the wall and my computer was unplugged for the rest of the night.

Next morning, I got rid of the demon speakers and unpluged them from everything.

This is where the problem occurred.

When I had the speakers in, I could see the following output devices in System Settings -> Multimedia:
Logitech Premium Stereo USB headset 350
HDA Intel (ALC888 Analog)
(There are more but I don't think they're important)


Now, when I first log in, the list of output devices are:
Audio Output:
Esound (ESD)
ALSA default output
OSS default output
Audio Capture:
(Nothing at all)


Then if I run Amorak, a message pops up saying:
Removed Sound Devices
KDE detected that 1 or more internal sound devices were removed
This is the list of devices KDE thinks can be removed:
Output: HDA ATI HDMI, ATI HDMI (HDMI Audio Output)

Yes No Manage Devices

After I click manage devices, I see that all of my headset information comes back. Now Amorak will play the audio through the headset (Like I want it to) but when I try just about any other program (Firefox), audio does not work.

How can I fix it so the headset always stays in the list like before?

This is a really annoying problem.
Can anybody help me?

bump. Anybody??

I suspect people are too scared to help, after all you seem to have a computer that is possessed. I would like to point out that it is impossible for a computer to turn itself on and carry out an independent action. You must of had it on standby, or wake on-lan or something. However that is besides the point. try running the old alsaconfig, alsamixer, alsactl store as root and see if that exorcises your deamon.

samac

I gotta ask: What was blasting out of the speakers while the machine was OFF?? Hopefully not something like a backwards Ozzy Oz recording

Anyhow, I'd be looking at the ALSAmixer settings, especially of your motherboard has automatic jack sensing. The automatic jack sensing might be acting up, and/or not working properly depending on the exact level of support for your hardware by the ALSA driver and other ALSA software installed on the machine.

Maybe look at ALSAMIXER, play with the settings, and see if you can get some semblance of normalcy that way. Also, please tell us what distro you're running, and which version of the ALSA packages, AND what motherboard you're running.

Thanks,
Sasha

Well I found out today that the speakers power surged and made them go off. It was like a solid tone or note that came out of it.

Anyway I am running Slackware 13 32 bit with a GA-EP43-DS3l mobo
How can I find alsa version?

Hi,

Welcome to LQ & Slackware!

You just need to run as root the 'alsaconf' to detect your card. Then run 'alsamixer' to setup the sound. After that run 'alsactl store'. You can 'man commands' to get a bettter understanding.

You should now be able to use your sound system. You probably aready have the user groups setup (users floppy audio video cdrom plugdev power netdev) for your user(s).

Thanks a ton man.
Now my sound works in firefox too!