10.04 intermittent sound card detection
 

I am having a very strange problem with my sound card. I have found that occasionally when I boot up my system the sound card is not detected. I could understand that there may be driver issues if it was never detected but it usually works again after a reboot. I read that it might help to switch to ALSA so I switched the audio input and output to ALSA and thought it had fixed the problem but I just noticed that the sound card was not connected on my most recent boot up. Any ideas?

there may be something wrong with your sound card.

you can test your sound card with beep -f 200 > /dev/dsp
(need to instal beep, try changing dsp to dsp1)

there should be some more info about detecting sound card in logs.

What logs should I be looking in? I am pretty sure beep isn't going to be a worthwhile test if I can see that the sound card wasn't detected from sound recorder.