Sound problem [Back to silence]

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:55 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> 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!!!
> 
Have you been saving the alsamixer sond levels after setting them using:
alsactl ?
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