Sound Oddity

[Raena Lea-Shannon]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 02:22:35 am Raena Lea-Shannon wrote:
> Hi
>
> Running kubuntu 8.04 AMD 64 2.6.24-19-generic
>
> I have lost some but not all sound. I have Logitech Receiver and digital
> 5,1 speakers plugged into Audigy soundblaster by coax. Has been working
> beautifully until just now.
>
> I was playing a DVD on Kaffeine and that was working and using Ktorrent. I
> played a part downloaded video and after that I have lost all sound from
> the coax to digital other than HDTV ie A52. Very weird. Something broke but
> no idea what or how to find it.
>
> I can play all audio codecs and get sound if I use the other soundcard but
> that is not deafult card.
>
> Any advice hugely appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Soundcards:
>
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: Audigy [Audigy 1 [Unknown]], 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: Audigy [Audigy 1 [Unknown]], 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: Audigy [Audigy 1 [Unknown]], device 3: emu10k1 [Multichannel
> Playback] Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 0: Intel ICH [NVidia CK804]
>   Subdevices: 0/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 2: Intel ICH - IEC958 [NVidia CK804 -
> IEC958]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I have tried tried editing alsa.base to make the onboard sound card default 
and it will not do it dmesg says:

ALSA /build/buildd/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-2.6.24/debian/build/build-generic/sound/alsa-driver/acore/init.

which is odd goven my kernel is 2.6.24-19-generic