new machine; no sound

[Glenn Holmer]

On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 20:01 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 November 2008 09:12, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> >> I just bought a new machine and put Intrepid on it (32-bit), but have no
> >> sound.  It's a quad-core Xeon, with a Super Micro X7DA8 board, and I
> >> took a SoundBlaster Audigy SB1394 from my previous machine and put it in
> >> the new one.  I disabled the onboard AC 97 audio via jumper (verified by
> >> running "asoundconf list" both ways).  Volume is normal, nothing is
> >> muted, etc.
>     hi Glenn,
>     did you check ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf?
>     it should start with something like:
> 
>     !defaults.pcm.card CARD
>     defaults.ctl.card CARD
> 
>     replacing "CARD" by the ident given by asoundconf
> 
>     I have a quad-core with an Asus P5E-VM HDMI motherboard, and I get
>     sound with either the integrated Intel card or the Soundblaster Live,
>     just changing the CARD parameter .
>     (I had problems with Hardy, but Intrepid seems better, at least for that)

Yes, tried that.  Tried with the on-board audio both enabled and
disabled (via motherboard switch; no BIOS setting).

!defaults.pcm.card Audigy
defaults.ctl.card Audigy

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