Sound problem [Back to silence]

[david walcroft]

david walcroft wrote:
> 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
>
This is driving me crazy,now sound has returned all on It's own!!!