Horrible Sound

Navyblue · 04-07-2007, 04:18 PM

I just got a Creative Sound Blaster Digital Music SX. I am running Ubuntu Edgy.

Right now Only the right channel has sound, and it is cracky, distorted and soft. In Windows it sounds alright (although it keeps popping when playing CD).

Also, I only get the mixer to show the full correct set of slider once, other time it would show my SB Live slider (which is still on the machine), or a partial set of the slider that doesn't work (no volume change when slider is dragged).

Please let me know what information to provide.

Thanks.

r00tb33r · 04-07-2007, 11:24 PM

run "alsaconf" and see if you can get more out of it...

Navyblue · 04-08-2007, 07:15 AM

There doesn't seem to be a package called "alsaconf" in the Ubuntu repo.

FYI, Creative Sound Blaster Digital Music SX is an external USB sound card. I have another PCI sound card which is working well. Not sure if it has to do about the setting on which is the default card.

Navyblue · 04-08-2007, 12:28 PM

There is another complication. I tried uninstalling and installing ALSA again. Now I get this:

Code:

$ alsamixer
ALSA lib conf.c:1587:(snd_config_load1) /home/navyblue/.asoundrc.asoundconf:8:23:Unexpected char
ALSA lib conf.c:2827:(snd_config_hook_load) /home/navyblue/.asoundrc may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:2691:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:3054:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Invalid argument

r00tb33r · 04-08-2007, 04:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Navyblue

There doesn't seem to be a package called "alsaconf" in the Ubuntu repo.

FYI, Creative Sound Blaster Digital Music SX is an external USB sound card. I have another PCI sound card which is working well. Not sure if it has to do about the setting on which is the default card.

um... thats cause its in the alsa-utils package.
but it should have been installed by default.

Navyblue · 04-09-2007, 01:04 PM

I found out that I have a "asoundconf" which may be what you are talking about. With that, I can detect both cards, "Live" and "SX". But the mixer detected 2 cards, which are some cirrus card (on board sound card) and a usb audio.

Suddenly Vista sounds tempting to me