Lost Use of PCI Soundcard

[michaelferrie]

Hi I recently upgraded my motherboard and since then I cant get my PCI sound card to work. When i run alsamixer in terminal it doesnt show up in the list of devices, but when i run --- lspci -v | grep -i audio


00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation HDMI Audio stub (rev a1)
04:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496


The card shows up, it is the Maudio ICE1712 Card

Why wont alsa or pulse audio recognise it

any help would be great...

Michael

[dibl]

Have you tried using pavucontrol to choose the sound device? If not, install it and give it a shot. Also, what do you see in your systemsettings > multimedia panel? Does the Maudio card show up there? If it's not in the top position, move it up, and use the "Test" button in the lower right to see if it is functional.

[michaelferrie]

Hi dibl, I believe you have assisted me on audio issues before - thanks for your reply in advance anyway.....

I have pulseaudio installed and I can select the sound card, also I can now see it in alsamixer, but when I enter Phonon and click test - no test sound is heard


-Michael

[dequire]

Do you have the onboard sound turned off on the motherboard's bios? If not you might try that. It would seem to be a hardware issue, assuming the card ran fine in Kubuntu before

[michaelferrie]

Lost Use of PCI Soundcard

HI Guys,

I have the card now showing up in alsa, pulse and phonon - the levels of audio are even flashing up in the pulseaudio control GUI - still no sound, I tried the suggestion of switching off the onboard audio in the BIOS but this has made no difference.

The sound works perfectly if i use the onboard audio BTW just not the PCI card

http://i.imgur.com/1IGFJ.png - screenshot

Any ideas?

Michael

[dibl]

Make sure the other card (Intel HDA, I guess it is) is disabled in pavucontrol.

Off the top of my head, and I'm kinda guessing here, one thing you could try is to blacklist the driver kernel module(s) for the Intel HDA card. On my system it is snd_hda_intel. There are a number of modules that begin with "snd_hda_xxx", and these are may or may not interfer with the kernel module(s) for your Maudio card. Try first blacklisting only snd_hda_intel and reboot and see what you have.

[michaelferrie]

Lost Use of PCI Soundcard

I dont really want to lose the use of the intel soundcard - im going to try and resinstall the OS from scratch and see if this gets me any farther forward. Both the motherboard and the Kubuntu version are upgrades.

Im going to try and approach it from scratch - id like to have the MAudio for output and the onboard Intel for the mic socket and for the headphone socket on the front

Ill reinstall the latest version and see if that fixes the issue

thanks

michael