<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Mike this whole thing turned into a comedy of errors.  I took the old sound blaster card out and the internal card or chip works, I have sound.  The first time I put the sound card in it worked for a little while so I really am not sure the the problem but the internal card was doing the same thing ( working on and off). Seems like it uses a different driver maybe.  What ever was going on seems to have stopped and sound works good now.  Whether or not it will continue is yet to be seen.  This whole sound thing is really confusing.  It seems that Pulse audio works in Alsa,but when i look at the the sound control the speakers appear to be muted and yet are working.  That makes no sense to me.  IT looks as though I should not have any sound at all??   I have some reading to do if this is to make any sense at all.  On top of this Jack seems involved Does it run on and depend on alsa?  Does it not run at all unless you turn it on? As I remember someone asked me If I was using Jack if I was would  Alsa or Pulse not work.  As it stands right know I have no idea how these sound systems work.  I am planning to spend a lot of today reading in hopes of understanding all this.  I fully expect to loose sound again in the next day or so.  As far as I can tell nothing has been really fixed.  I had been typing pavucontrol in the terminal before when sound quit. I was turning off the computer and getting sound back again on start up, until I lost sound again with the warning of a lost connection.  So it has been only a temporary fix and sound would begin crackling and popping before it quit which led me to believe it was a hardware problem.  I don't think this is over yet?<br>     I will Google for a special driver for the sound card. I would like to have it installed temporarily if it can be made to work. The sound it produces is really sweet compared to the internal card but I will buy another card to install, also.  I guess this thread is solved at least for now.          Thanks for the help.             Doug <br>    <br>       P.S. Using the IRC channel was great and a real eye opener.                            <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> On 12/14/2010 08:19 PM, Mike Holstein wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTinfzsmC1qkvy5_8UFMn+0u0jLWLd7a9qjjBrDfU@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">no worries, i saw you had joined, but i was out... you'll see a tab at the top that says '#ubuntustudio" thats the support channel... <br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Douglas Pollard <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dougpol1@verizon.net">dougpol1@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <div> <div class="h5"> On 12/14/2010 06:28 PM, Mike Holstein wrote: <blockquote type="cite">if you get a minute, come to the IRC channel and look for me - holstein  <div><br> </div> <div> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntustudio&uio=d4" target="_blank">http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntustudio&uio=d4</a></div> <div><br> </div> <div>maybe we can trouble-shoot it a little more in real-time<br> <br> <br> </div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>