Sound problem [Back to silence]

[david walcroft]

david walcroft wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
>> On Wednesday 03 October 2007 01:56, david walcroft wrote:
>>  
>>> Nigel Henry wrote:
>>>     
>>
>>  
>>>> See how you get on, and post back please.
>>>>
>>>> All the best.
>>>>
>>>> Nigel.
>>>>       
>>> I have done the items you suggested but with no luck,I suppose the
>>> possibility is that my sound card is faulty....
>>>
>>>   david
>>>     
>>
>> Ok David. Don't give up on the sonicvibes card just yet.
>>
>> As you've now made the changes to /etc/modprobe.conf. please post 
>> your current /etc/modprobe.conf, also the output of cat 
>> /proc/asound/cards, which should now show 2 cards, the sonicvibes one 
>> as card0, and the intel one as card1.
>>
>> What did you get from running alsamixer on the CLI (konsole)? Did you 
>> get mixer settings for the sonicvibes card?
>>
>> And starting alsamixer as "alsamixer -c 1" (without the quotes), did 
>> you get mixer settings for the intel card?
>>
>> What music app are you using to test your soundcard?
>>
>> Running speaker-test should produce some pink noise out of your 
>> speakers, as long as the speakers are connected to the soundcard. To 
>> cancel the speaker-test use ctrl + c.
>>
>> I've also posted to the alsa-user list to see if there are any known 
>> problems with snd-sonicvibes driver, and also did a bit of googling. 
>> the card looks like it should work OOTB.
>>
>> It's annoying not to have sounds. My audigy2 soundblaster works ok, 
>> and on the other machine the ensoniq card also works, but it's 
>> frustrating when you can't get your card to produce sounds.
>>
>> Nigel.
>>
>>   
> Well I finally have sound,I pulled the Sonics card out of my box and 
> set up
> the onboard AC-97, so it would seem the Sonic card was the likely 
> culprit.
>
> Thanks for all of your help Nigel
>
>   david
>
Well my sound lasted one reboot and I'm back to silence