NVIDIA nforce sound not working

[Richard Barry]

Ok, finally fixed it (by chance). I opened the volume control and turned
off "IEC958 Capture Monitor", under the "Switches" tab.  It wasn't there
by default, I had to select it by clicking on the "Edit/Preferences"
menu.   


On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:57 +0200, Richard Barry wrote:
> I installed Hoary RC yesterday, and my sound is not working.  I have a
> NVIDIA nforce onboard soundcard, and I seem to remember it working with
> an earlier version of the Hoary livecd.  I checked the volume control
> and it looks to me like nothing's muted, so I should hear something.
> Any ideas?   
> 
> Ouput of aplay -l:
> 
> card 0: CK8S [NVidia CK8S], device 0: Intel ICH [NVidia CK8S]
>   Subdevices: 0/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: CK8S [NVidia CK8S], device 2: Intel ICH - IEC958 [NVidia CK8S -
> IEC958]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> 
> 
> Also:
> When I open the Multimedia Systems Selector app under the
> System/Preferences menu, I select ALSA or OSS as Output device, and when
> I click on Test I get something like the following error message:
> "Failed to construct test pipeline for 'ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound
> Architecture'"
> When I select ESD as Output, the test button works, but I hear nothing.
> 
> Any ideas?
>