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Old 10-18-2014, 06:07 PM   #1
smith123
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Question ASUS Xonar DGX soundcard not recognised by ALSA in Debian Wheezy


Currently alsamixer only detects my GPU's HDMI audio output. Here is the output of 'aplay -l':

Code:
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] 
  Subdevices: 1/1 
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] 
  Subdevices: 1/1 
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] 
  Subdevices: 1/1 
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3] 
  Subdevices: 1/1 
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

And 'cat /proc/asound/cards' returns:
Code:
 0 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xf7080000 irq 17
The soundcard device for the ASUS DGX is as follows from output of 'lspci -v | grep audio':

Code:
04:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]
After researching the AlsaProject site for ASUS it comes up with this (http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...ix:Vendor-Asus), which does not specifically list CMI8788 for the Xonar DGX, but CMI8786. I assume it means CMI8788, and it requires the snd-oxygen driver.


I have loaded the snd-oxygen module using 'modprobe snd-oxygen'. I'm not entirely sure if this actually takes effect since it is still not recognised, and it doesn't load the module as standard on the next boot, which I've confirmed with output from 'lsmod | grep snd'.
The kernel version is 3.2.0-4-amd64 - up to date and should work with the driver.


I'm not sure why the soundcard is not being picked up by alsa, or how I should attempt to fix it from here. Does anyone have any solutions for this? I would be hugely grateful. Thanks.
 
Old 10-21-2014, 07:20 AM   #2
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It says that your sound card is supported from kernel 3.14 and up...

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Xonar DGX CMI8786 Details [PCIE] [ANALOGio] [TOSo] [24bit] [192kHz] [5.1]
Hardware volume controls only for headphones; use PulseAudio. kernel 3.14
So you'd better install 3.14 from the backports repo.

Last edited by jim_p; 10-21-2014 at 07:22 AM.
 
Old 10-21-2014, 09:21 AM   #3
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It says that your sound card is supported from kernel 3.14 and up...



So you'd better install 3.14 from the backports repo.

Is it not guaranteed to be supported in later versions?
 
Old 10-21-2014, 06:35 PM   #4
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3.14 or later should support it. It also might have support under OSSv4 as well.
 
  


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