USB sound

[Ric Moore]

On 10/07/2013 04:30 PM, R Kimber wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:44:16 -0400
> Ric Moore wrote:
>
>>> Bus 001 Device 016: ID 04b4:930b Cypress Semiconductor Corp
>> Ok, seeing the device is half the battle. Others on this list in the
>> past have disabled HDA in order for the 'more primitive" plain-jane
>> audio to become available. Forage around in your bios and, if found,
>> turn it off. If all you are going to use is the USB device, turn off
>> support for onboard sound, for the time being. It's not like it's
>> permanent.
>
> I disabled onboard sound in the BIOS.  All that's happened, unsurprisingly,
> is the built-in sound is no longer listed.
>
>> Just for ducks, as alsa seems hell bent on using both HDA sound devices.
>> So, remove them. Funny that you seem to have two sound cards, both set
>> to HDA. If one is a secondary card, remove it too. You can always put it
>> back in. The trick will be to get the USB sound device working now. Ric
>
> The other HDA is I think provided by the video card, which I can't take out.
>
> But in any event, given that it used to work, the most likely scenario is
> software configuration - maybe it's to do with UDEV, or whatever handles
> USB connections, but most likely to do with Alsa, which doesn't want to
> initialize USB for some reason.
Ah, also found this:
http://itsfoss.com/fix-sound-ubuntu-1304-quick-tip/

Maybe give that one a whirl.


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