Sound Card Recognized....Still No Sound
 

Hi, Again!

I just installed an old ES1938 Solo-1 soundcard, as my onboard sound was messed up. Debian recognizes the sound card....but there is no sound (At least I had some sound with mt messed-up onboard config!)

I disabled the onboard sound in the bios..

Opened Alsamixer...volume is set at 100.....

What else can I do to try and get the sound working?

Make sure output channels are not muted.

Hmm...how would i do that, please?

In alsamixer, a muted channel shows MM at the bottom (instead of OO). Pressing m toggles it.

Ah, O-K...thanks.

The only thing showing as muter is "3D cntrl".....

Any other ideas?

I'm beginning to think that this sound card is defective....'cause everything else seems to check-out O-K. I've ordered a nedw one.....

If you have pulse audio, you could install and try pavucontrol, its like alsa mixer but on my system, at least, it has options and device settings that alsamixer lacks.

Thanks. I don't believe my Debian has Pulse...but I know that my old Ubuntu does...so maybe I'll boot-up Ubuntu and give that a try!

Ah well...that didn't work..... Same deal; It recognizes the card....but still no sound.

I forgot to hook up the wire from the CD/DVD drive when I installed the card...but that would only affect media I was trying to play from the drive, right? (I'll hook it up later, just for the heck of it...)

Anyone see anything wrong with this aplay -l output:

Or this lspci -v:

It's obviously seeing the sound card ,and loading the driver....

What can the problem be, besides a bad card?

Hi

I like images pls post an image of
if you don't have your own host site consider tinypic.com or http://imagebin.org/index.php?page=add
eg 14 day expiry at link http://imagebin.org/271938

2) Have you read http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...:Module-es1938

so post the contents of
3) Can you just mention that your syslog has no mention of your onboard---no need for posting log at this stage
---its smart to disable it while testing your pc card snd but it can interfere, pesky things they are.

but we don't know if interference from other IRQs so post this output pls
good luck

Hello, Aus9,

Thank you for taking the time to do this- Being a noob, this is really what I need- someone to walk me through this.

Here is the output of alsamixer -c0 -Vall:

http://oi44.tinypic.com/5x3ejn.jpg

(I un-muted the 3Dcntrl...just in case...but it made no difference)

2)- No, I haven't read that particular piece. Hadn't found it yet (Not for lack of Googling, though!)


Here is the output of modinfo snd:
3)I've tried it with the onboard sound disabled and in "auto" through the BIOS...no difference. (Funny thing is: I used to have some sound through the onboard sound...now if i enable it and plug the speakers in to it, I have NO sound, even through that! )

...and finally:

Any ideas?

Thanks again!

Hi

thanks for image

2) Your soundcard has not been shared with other devices so no interrupt interference which eliminates that issue

3) but I can't see any sound inputs in your [all] image pls post the contents of
and thanks for aplay -l above.

4) I have to go out but maybe this device needs a quirk setting or something,
will research later

ok some quick research on your card shows
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documenta...figuration.txt

but to be sure can you post the output of this command pls

alternatively you could tryt OSS for sound instead of ALSA?

debian sid has oss4-gtk which should pull down oss4-base but the first package is a gui or graphical panel that should suit newbies?