Elyssa -- No Sound

[JohnBlaz]

Elyssa 5.0
Sound card: SB Live! 5.1 (Driver ---> emu10k1??)
Pentium 4 3.0GHz
Intel Desktop Board D865PERL

Before I describe my problem, let me state that I am very new to linux. I tried out Ubuntu (Hardy) for a while and just switched over to Linux Mint 5 (Elyssa - BETA). My problem is that when I installed both OS' (ubuntu and mint), I had no sound at all.

I followed this guide to fix Ubuntu and got my sound working ->>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449&highlight=sound+troubleshoot

I tried the same procedure with Mint and it did not work. I do now, however, get sound at the LOGIN screen. Also if I go to [Preferences]->[Sound], and set playback to ALSA, I can hear the test sound.

Does anyone have any input about what I can do?

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$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Live [SB Live 5.1 [SB0220]], device 0: emu10k1 [ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback]
  Subdevices: 32/32
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
  Subdevice #8: subdevice #8
  Subdevice #9: subdevice #9
  Subdevice #10: subdevice #10
  Subdevice #11: subdevice #11
  Subdevice #12: subdevice #12
  Subdevice #13: subdevice #13
  Subdevice #14: subdevice #14
  Subdevice #15: subdevice #15
  Subdevice #16: subdevice #16
  Subdevice #17: subdevice #17
  Subdevice #18: subdevice #18
  Subdevice #19: subdevice #19
  Subdevice #20: subdevice #20
  Subdevice #21: subdevice #21
  Subdevice #22: subdevice #22
  Subdevice #23: subdevice #23
  Subdevice #24: subdevice #24
  Subdevice #25: subdevice #25
  Subdevice #26: subdevice #26
  Subdevice #27: subdevice #27
  Subdevice #28: subdevice #28
  Subdevice #29: subdevice #29
  Subdevice #30: subdevice #30
  Subdevice #31: subdevice #31
card 0: Live [SB Live 5.1 [SB0220]], device 2: emu10k1 efx [Multichannel Capture/PT Playback]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 0: Live [SB Live 5.1 [SB0220]], device 3: emu10k1 [Multichannel Playback]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


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$ cat /proc/asound/modules
 0 snd_emu10k1
 1 snd_intel8x0


[Husse]

I tried the same procedure with Mint

Could you describe the procedure - that topic is one of the longest topics there are....
Also it's ICH5 so I don't have the solutions for ICH8 to use
You have a built in soundcard apart from the sblive - see to it that it's disabled in BIOS
Also check this
viewtopic.php?f=48&t=7966&hilit=ich5
or this
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4304&hilit=ich5
Search for ICH5 in the forum and/or SB live

[JohnBlaz]

Thanks for the reply, I disabled the onboard sound in BIOS and that seemed to fix my problem. Here is what else i had done prior to my post.

Tried to load my driver with modprobe:

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sudo modprobe snd-emu10k1

I couldnt load my driver (emu10k1) with modprobe, so I compiled the ALSA drivers using alsa-source.

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sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) module-assistant alsa-source

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure alsa-source

Within alsa-source i de-selected everything except for "emu10k1" to install, saved and exited, then the following code:

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sudo module-assistant a-i   alsa-source

After this I noticed in alsamixer that the current card was NOT SBLive! but "intel8x0" (onboard device?) So i modified "/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base" and added two lines at the bottom of the file to make SBlive the default card. (is this correct?)

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options snd-emu10k1 index=0
options snd-intel8x0 index=1

I also modified one more file, "/etc/modules" and added the following so that the driver was loaded every session.

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snd-emu10k1

This worked in Ubuntu, without having to disable the onboard sound in BIOS.

[blubbalub]

Hi JohnBlaz,

I've got similar issues, during my bootup the PulseAudio daemon sometimes isn't loading properly.
Normally this will do

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pulseaudio -D

I have added an entry into the Session-Manager to assure PulseAudio is loaded.

[Husse]

I believe the indexing is correct