No Sound after LMDE update [solved]

[unni]

After updating LMDE , sound is not working. My Sound card is Creative Sound Blaster 5.1VX.
In the panel volume control icon is there and in Sound preferences the sound output hardware is displaying as
'CA0106 Soundblaster Analog Surround 5.1'

I had gone through " HOW TO: Solve your LMDE audio issues " (http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=58616) section and applied the changes. But still no working

Thanks in advance

[Gerd50]

Sometimes with Creative cards it happens after updates that 'Tone' is disabled or IEC958 Optical Raw is enabled.
You can check it in alsa-mixer gui whether there are changes like that.

[unni]

I checked, it's enabled there. I think it's some other problem.
In my LM11 installation also sound is not functioning after the update

[Gerd50]

What is enabled, both 'Tone' and 'IEC958 Optical Raw' ? Optical Raw should be disabled.

What do you get with

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cat /proc/asound/cards

and

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lspci | grep -i audio

Please check in both Systems, whether the card is recognized.

[unni]

This is the result I got :

asha@asha-desktop:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [CA0106 ]: CA0106 - CA0106
Sound Blaster 5.1vx [SB1070] at 0xd000 irq 21
1 [U0x46d0x802 ]: USB-Audio - USB Device 0x46d:0x802
USB Device 0x46d:0x802 at usb-0000:00:1d.7-4, high speed
asha@asha-desktop:~$ lspci | grep -i audio
04:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster
asha@asha-desktop:~$

[Gerd50]

Hmm, recognized it is. I've been searching around a little bit for your card. Seems like some kernel versions can cause
problems. Where there kernel updates on your systems?

[unni]

Kernel updates are

Linux 2.6.39-2-686-pae
Linux 2.6.38-2-686

[Gerd50]

Kernel 2.6.39 can be problematic i read. But .38 should work. You've had .38 in LMDE before the update. I only can
assume, your card has a technical defect.

Do you still have the old kernels to boot with? For a test, whether you'll have sound that way?

Another thing you can try is:

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aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

The result should look like this:

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Wiedergabe Wave '/usr/share/sounds/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Samplingrate: 44100 Hz, Stereo

no matter whether you can hear something or not. If you get sth completely different, your card can't import files from your
filesystem.

[unni]

aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
aplay: main:654: audio open error: No such device or address

[Gerd50]

That does not look good for your card.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543448
Are the packages libgdbm3 and libwrap0 installed? Helpful could be another missing package, lib32asound2-plugins.
You can get it here:

http://packages.debian.org/en/squeeze/l ... d2-plugins

Another thing you can try is using OSS instead of Alsa

http://rikijpn.blogspot.com/2011/02/cre ... linux.html

[unni]

OSS instead of Alsa is working. Now 2.1 audio is working for me.

Thanks a lot brother.

God bless you