After 2-3 months of working fine. I have a win7 box hooked thru a KVM switch to the same speakers and they work from there. I booted up a live CD (Mint Linux 10) on the non-working machine, and the speakers work fine.
I checked and I have rights to "Use audio devices".
I ran the following and got:
Code:
lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51PV [GeForce 6150] (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
04:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
04:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
04:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster
Code:
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 0: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 1: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 2: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 3: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Code:
lsmod | grep -i "snd"
snd_wavefront 33066 0
snd_cs4236 25734 0
snd_wss_lib 22074 2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_ca0106 31595 4
snd_opl3_lib 8850 2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_hwdep 5040 2 snd_wavefront,snd_opl3_lib
snd_ac97_codec 99227 1 snd_ca0106
ac97_bus 1014 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 71475 4 snd_cs4236,snd_wss_lib,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec
snd_mpu401 5123 0
snd_mpu401_uart 5661 3 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236,snd_mpu401
snd_seq_midi 4588 0
snd_rawmidi 17783 4 snd_wavefront,snd_ca0106,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6047 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47174 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 19067 4 snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5744 4 snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 49038 22 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236,snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
snd_page_alloc 7120 3 snd_wss_lib,snd_ca0106,snd_pcm
soundcore 880 1 snd
Code:
cat /proc/asound/cards:
0 [CA0106 ]: CA0106 - CA0106
Audigy SE [SB0570] at 0x9c00 irq 17
1 [UART ]: MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART
MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10
Code:
play -n synth 5 sine 440 gain -1
Encoding: n/a
Channels: 1 @ 32-bit
Samplerate: 48000Hz
Replaygain: off
Duration: unknown
In:0.00% 00:00:05.12 [00:00:00.00] Out:240k [======|======] Hd:1.0 Clip:0
Done.
I guess the last one is supposed to play something, but I heard NOTHING. I've also lost the "Volume icon" in the top panel (Gnome).
This is extremely frustrating as it is a RE-install of a previous version of Ubuntu 10.10. However, things have been working fine for a couple of months.
Anyone have any ideas on how to get my sound back?