I hope someone can help me out here. I have a sound blaster audigy 2 ZS sound card and I can't get it to work. I am on Ubuntu 5.04 and had it working before. I had to do a reinstall onto a new HD, old one bit the dust. I have also tried installing the alsa-driver 1.0.9b and still no sound. I have disabled onboard sound as well.

My specs are:

Asus p4p800 SE Motherboard
1280 MB of RAM (I don't know what that is in GB, may a gig in a half)
Nivida GeForce FX 5500 OC 256MB DDR AGP 8x/4x video card
Creative Labs Sound blaster Audigy 2 ZS Sound Card
Intel Celron 2.8 GHz

My lsmode gives me this:

paintballer@Zion:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
proc_intf 4100 0
freq_table 4100 0
cpufreq_userspace 4572 0
cpufreq_ondemand 6172 0
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
video 16260 0
sony_acpi 6280 0
pcc_acpi 11264 0
button 6800 0
battery 10244 0
container 4608 0
ac 4996 0
ipv6 229504 9
ohci1394 31876 0
emu10k1_gp 3840 0
gameport 4608 1 emu10k1_gp
af_packet 20744 2
snd_emu10k1 100228 3
snd_rawmidi 24096 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_device 8588 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 72572 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm_oss 47904 0
snd_mixer_oss 17024 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 81544 4 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 23428 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9604 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 4608 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 9376 1 snd_emu10k1
snd 52228 13 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,sn d_hwdep
soundcore 9824 1 snd
sk98lin 149216 0
i2c_i801 8076 0
i2c_core 21264 1 i2c_i801
tsdev 7488 0
ehci_hcd 29444 0
usblp 12032 0
usbhid 29376 0
uhci_hcd 30224 0
usbcore 107384 5 ehci_hcd,usblp,usbhid,uhci_hcd
shpchp 86116 0
pci_hotplug 30512 1 shpchp
intel_mch_agp 10000 0
intel_agp 20636 1
floppy 54864 0
pcspkr 3816 0
rtc 12216 0
evdev 9088 0
md 43856 0
dm_mod 53116 1
capability 5000 0
commoncap 7808 1 capability
nvidia 3923388 12
agpgart 31784 3 intel_mch_agp,intel_agp,nvidia
sr_mod 16036 0
sbp2 22408 0
scsi_mod 119936 2 sr_mod,sbp2
ieee1394 100408 2 ohci1394,sbp2
psmouse 19336 0
mousedev 11160 1
parport_pc 34372 1
lp 10792 0
parport 33480 2 parport_pc,lp
ide_cd 38532 1
cdrom 36508 2 sr_mod,ide_cd
ext3 120968 1
jbd 54168 1 ext3
ide_generic 1664 0
piix 9988 1
ide_disk 18176 3
ide_core 118988 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,piix,ide_disk
unix 26164 756
thermal 13576 0
processor 22708 1 thermal
fan 4612 0
fbcon 34048 0
font 8448 1 fbcon
bitblit 5120 1 fbcon
vesafb 6948 0
cfbcopyarea 3968 1 vesafb
cfbimgblt 3072 1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 3584 1 vesafb
paintballer@Zion:~$

My Lspci gives me This:

ntballer@Zion:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02)0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0326 (rev a1)
0000:02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13)
0000:02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
0000:02:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 04)
0000:02:0a.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)


Can anybody help me out. Oh and yes I have been to unoffical starter guide and did what it said there and I am still not getting any sound.

Well I hope some can hlep me out.

Thanks to those who reply in advanced.

I am getting the same thing use the oss driver

I had mine working with audigy 2 zs then it just stopped?? no reason I can find.
alsa oss either one is working.
have not found a solution yet.
this is for amd 64 by the way.
live cd= no sound now
installed on hd= no sound now
tryed 32bit live just for fun= no sound
had sound initiallyin ubuntu and have sound in windows now

no solution yet.

well here I am again found the solution.
For some reason it changed itself to digital from analog, here is how to change it back.
open terminal type alsamixer
a panel will open up it looks like there are about 2 little boxes with mm in them and 5 sliders but if you keep pushing the arrow key right till you find the little boxes with mm in it for analog and I also had to swith the oss one said sigtel I believe was almost all the way over put the focus on the little boxes and hit m that will trip the switch and turn it on. hit escape to close.

When you reboot you will loose it unless you save it

sudo alsactl store
is the save command i believe...good luck

Hi,

I manage to open up that panel by using that command but then, i dont quite understand what to do next.

Im having the same issue as you.

Using Ubuntu CDLive.

once you open alsamixer from the command line you will see a mixer panel.

there will be several slider bars and in between the slider bars some little boxes with sideways looking mm in it.
those little boxes with mm in them are switches to turn features on and off.
By using your arrow key -> you can move over to the proper switch to turn it on.

if its black with mm in it then it is presently turned off it will turn green when it is on.
you turn it on by moving cursor over till you are on it then type M
You will need to find the switch for analog/digital.
because if you are wired to analog and its set to digital you will get no sound.

Don't be fooled into thinking you are seeing all the switches keep pressing your arrow key to keep moving over till you find the analog switch.

I also had to switch for the Oss mixer too you can get an idea what it is going to be labled by going to sound control in your system tools. on the file menu there is an option to change mixers alsa or Oss and see what its calling the oss I think mine said audigy2 sigtel or something like that?


so hopefully not to confusing easiest way is to put in a cd and start it.
toggle a switch in alsamixer if you get sound that was the right one if you don't toggle it off again and move over to next switch.
mine were almost all the way over to the right just keep pressing that arrow key over till you see them.

gl; dan

Hi,

Thank you very much, that did the trick

/cheers

fixed my problem too.

This fixed my problem also. I actually needed to turn the analog/digital box off for this to work.

sweet!worked great on suse 10.2.and then i plugged my speakers into the right port

I just installed audigy4 pro wow!

oh and i'm sure KMIX will do the same as above instructions prolly.

Wow! Thanks a ton!. That helped me too. I was afraid it wouldn't as I'm running on an ancient machine with a Soundblaster Audigy Platinum.. but it did. THANKS!

I confirm that once I ran

alsamixer -c 0

and

pressed 'm' over the box

I GOT the sound. Thank you vary much folks!

just have to thank all who have been posting in this thread over the past years...
I had no problem with the sound, for me it was the microphone which did not record anything.

the issue turned out to be that the input volume was too low. (It was on 0)
i had todo the following (in that order):

"alsamixer"
and then [f6] to choose my sound card
then [f4] to choose input
then just raise the volume on mic (up arrow).

ubuntu 10.10 here.