SOLVED! ARTS in KDE/Kubuntu hates my Card, whereas GNOME and ALSA behave well with regular Ubuntu. Had to re-install dumping Kubuntu infavor of Ubuntu from ISO CD.


Ok, I disabled the NVidia onboard sound in BIOS.

Now, my M-Audio Audiophile Delta 2496 is the primary and only card detected by ALSA.

foreman@ubuntuJFF:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards

0 [M2496 ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Audiophile 24/96
M Audio Audiophile 24/96 at 0xd000, irq 18


Still, no playback!

XMMS won't load, Audacity says cannot initialize the sound server. Even when I go into KInfoCenter everything works, except the "sound" section and it will close the program if I go to it.

Other programs may load but won't play sound or start the sound server.

So what is the issue here? Why is ALSA correctly detecting my card yet anyhting that tries to use it cannot or won't start at all???


root@ubuntuJFF:~ # lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev a2)
0000:00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
0000:00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
0000:00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
0000:00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
0000:00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
0000:00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev a2)
0000:01:07.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4325 (rev 02)
0000:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200 Ultra] (rev a1)0000:01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)

root@ubuntuJFF:~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
nvidia 3923324 8
proc_intf 3972 0
freq_table 4100 0
cpufreq_userspace 4444 0
cpufreq_ondemand 6236 0
cpufreq_powersave 1728 0
ipt_limit 2432 7
iptable_mangle 2816 0
ipt_LOG 6976 7
ipt_MASQUERADE 3584 0
iptable_nat 26568 1 ipt_MASQUERADE
ipt_TOS 2432 0
ipt_REJECT 6912 0
ip_conntrack_irc 71728 0
ip_conntrack_ftp 72624 0
ipt_state 1920 4
ip_conntrack 46484 5 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_ftp,ipt_state
iptable_filter 3648 1
ip_tables 18688 9 ipt_limit,iptable_mangle,ipt_LOG,ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ipt_TOS,ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_fil ter
video 16068 0
sony_acpi 6024 0
pcc_acpi 11072 0
button 6544 0
battery 10052 0
container 4416 0
ac 4740 0
ipv6 259008 9
af_packet 22280 2
ndiswrapper 122356 0
snd_ice1712 62212 1
snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx 4032 1 snd_ice1712
snd_ak4xxx_adda 5952 2 snd_ice1712,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx
snd_cs8427 10624 1 snd_ice1712
snd_ac97_codec 74208 1 snd_ice1712
snd_pcm_oss 52516 0
snd_mixer_oss 19776 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 94920 3 snd_ice1712,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25156 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9796 1 snd_pcm
snd_i2c 5760 2 snd_ice1712,snd_cs8427
snd_mpu401_uart 7744 1 snd_ice1712
snd_rawmidi 24928 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8524 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 55268 14 snd_ice1712,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_cs8427,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,sn d_i2c,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 10080 1 snd
shpchp 99300 0
pci_hotplug 33584 1 shpchp
tsdev 7616 0
usbhid 32192 0
forcedeth 17408 0
ehci_hcd 32772 0
ohci_hcd 21576 0
usbcore 119224 5 ndiswrapper,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
i2c_nforce2 6464 0
i2c_core 22416 1 i2c_nforce2
nvidia_agp 7708 1
agpgart 33704 2 nvidia,nvidia_agp
analog 11680 0
gameport 4544 1 analog
pcspkr 3560 0
rtc 12536 0
nls_cp437 5696 1
ntfs 111536 1
evdev 9408 0
md 47504 0
dm_mod 59708 1
capability 4744 0
commoncap 7808 1 capability
psmouse 21384 0
mousedev 11352 1
parport_pc 37444 1
lp 11240 0
parport 36872 2 parport_pc,lp
ide_cd 41924 0
cdrom 40476 1 ide_cd
ext3 138184 1
jbd 60888 1 ext3
mbcache 8452 1 ext3
ide_generic 1408 0
ide_disk 20480 5
amd74xx 14044 1
ide_core 129548 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,ide_disk,amd74xx
unix 28532 524
thermal 13384 0
processor 22516 1 thermal
fan 4484 0
fbcon 38016 0
font 8256 1 fbcon
bitblit 5568 1 fbcon
vesafb 6820 0
cfbcopyarea 3904 1 vesafb
cfbimgblt 3008 1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 3584 1 vesafb

The tutorial below and instructions worked like a charm, and I did a few other suggestions on there.

*** http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=ice1712
*** I just compiled alsa, using the ubuntu source for ALSA provided from kynaptic/synaptic.
*** It placed the source.bz2 file in /usr/src/ (automatically done by kynaptic)

Make a directory to store the alsa source code in.
cd /usr/src
mkdir alsa
cd /usr/src/alsa

Now unzip and install the alsa-driver package

bunzip2 alsa-driver-xxx
tar -xf alsa-driver-xxx
cd alsa-driver-xxx
./configure --with-cards=ice1712 --with-sequencer=yes;make;make install

Then it compiles the source for the same version of ALSA that comes with ubuntu/kubuntu currently.

Well since my onboard sound is off in bios and this compiled with the sequencer against my ICE 1712 chipset, I'm hoping that it will work.

I dont know right now because I left for class right after I compiled and rebooted.

I need my Jack and Jack Rack and Rosegarden and stuff No music makes this engineer very bored and sad

John

Ubuntu with GNOME and ALSA detects and plays my audio card. (Default ISO install)

(K)ubuntu with KDE's Arts, does not behave well with ALSA. (Default ISO install)

1.)Also Kubuntu lacks Ubuntu's (automated bug-report tool.)

2.)Kubuntu Also lacks "Ubuntu's device database tool"