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I just installed Mint 7 today and am unable to get it to play any sounds. When running XP (on a separate hard drive), the sound card(s) work fine and I've made sure that none of the channels are muted in ALSAMIXER.
I'v tried "modprobe snd_ca0106" and it returned the dollar sign so I assume that the Sound Blaster driver is present.
Also, I'm not sure if this is related but, just in case, Rhythmbox looks for and is unable to find a plugin every time I try to run it but Alsaplayer and GNOME MPlayer recognize my music and seem to play it but no sound.
I have read numerous similar questions but some don't seem to apply to my situation and in some cases, I'm not sure what I'm looking at since I'm very new to this.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Here are the results of several commands(?) that I've seen requested in others posts.
lspci -v
Quote:
03:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster
Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 1007
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at d8a0 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: CA0106
Kernel modules: snd-ca0106
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