No sound On Custom Comp with Mint 4.0

[grrrlshapedthing]

So after a year of testing various Linux "flavours" trying to find the one i liked the best i ended up with mint Bianca only to find out it was several upgrades behind so last night after 3 days of downloading the ISO did a clean install of Daryna and now I have no sound, my machine was custome built for me and my sound card is SB0090 Audigy Player, can anyone help me out?

I just wanted to add that I'm overall really happy with linux and hope to be able to contribute something in the future!

Brooklynne

[Husse]

Welcome to Mint grrrlshapedthing
There are problems with drivers for Creative in Linux as well as for Windows
Try to disable the sound in your motherboard (if any)
If that does not help post the output of
lsmod
If you don't see anything to do with sound there post the output of
lspci
Searching for your soundcard gives mostly hits in non english fora

[grrrlshapedthing]

thanks I don't know exactly how to do that but now i at least know what to google!

[grrrlshapedthing]

okay I disabled the motherboard sound and that didn't work here's my lsmod output:

Module Size Used by
af_packet 24840 2
binfmt_misc 12936 1
rfcomm 42136 2
l2cap 26240 11 rfcomm
bluetooth 57060 4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev 10244 0
speedstep_lib 6404 0
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_ondemand 9612 0
cpufreq_conservative 8072 0
cpufreq_userspace 5280 0
cpufreq_stats 7232 0
freq_table 5792 2 cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats
video 18060 0
button 8976 0
sbs 19592 0
container 5504 0
ac 6148 0
dock 10656 0
battery 11012 0
sbp2 24072 0
lp 12580 0
joydev 11328 0
parport_pc 37412 1
parport 37448 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
wacom 17664 0
snd_emu10k1_synth 8192 0
snd_emux_synth 35456 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 8064 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 7680 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_emu10k1 137248 2 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_ac97_codec 100644 1 snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus 3200 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 44672 0
snd_mixer_oss 17664 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 80388 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 5760 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 10244 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_dummy 4740 0
snd_seq_oss 33152 0
snd_seq_midi 9600 0
i2c_viapro 10004 0
serio_raw 8068 0
snd_rawmidi 25728 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8448 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
pcspkr 4224 0
psmouse 39952 0
i2c_core 26112 1 i2c_viapro
snd_seq 53232 9 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 24324 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9228 8 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
shpchp 34580 0
snd 54660 15 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
pci_hotplug 32704 1 shpchp
via_agp 11264 1
emu10k1_gp 4736 0
gameport 16776 2 emu10k1_gp
soundcore 8800 1 snd
agpgart 35016 1 via_agp
evdev 11136 3
ext3 133896 1
jbd 60456 1 ext3
mbcache 9732 1 ext3
ide_cd 32672 0
cdrom 37536 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 18560 3
usbhid 29536 0
hid 28928 1 usbhid
floppy 60004 0
ehci_hcd 36492 0
via82cxxx 10372 0 [permanent]
ide_core 116804 3 ide_cd,ide_disk,via82cxxx
via_rhine 25992 0
mii 6528 1 via_rhine
uhci_hcd 26640 0
usbcore 138632 5 wacom,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
sata_via 12548 0
ata_generic 8452 0
libata 125168 2 sata_via,ata_generic
scsi_mod 147084 2 sbp2,libata
ohci1394 36528 0
ieee1394 96312 2 sbp2,ohci1394
thermal 14344 0
processor 32072 1 thermal
fan 5764 0
capability 5896 0
commoncap 8320 1 capability
fuse 47124 3


Yet again thanks for all your help!

[Husse]

lsmod gives a listing (ls) of loaded modules (lsmod) and modules is the proper Linux term for drivers
And you have a whole bunch of sound modules loaded, so I would expect your sound card to work. Go through all sound settings, including the selection of sound source ("the large volume control" > Archive) and especially check that not mute is activated somewhere
It still may be creative, but .....

[grrrlshapedthing]

i actually found one of your other posts that led to an ubuntu forum... I did everything that was suggested there and I can hear the test sound but no music either on my comp or from a cd...

btw my music prefrences are all set to multichannel play back it's the only way i can hear the test sound... but that's the only sound i can hear... no other system sounds

[grrrlshapedthing]

OY VEY!

it turned out i just needed to install the sound updates...

so thank you so much for all your help!

boy do I feel stupid!