Sound card not working?

MR ZenWiz mrzenwiz at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 14:47:47 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:
>
> Are you absolutely sure the speakers are good? Can you try plugging them
> into a cellphone, for example, and see if you get sound or static
> there? The cable might be loose.
>

Very much so - when I plug them into the monitor headphone jack, I get sound.

> Well, you could also try to remove as much as possible that reeks of
> PulseAudio, and try to get it going with just ALSA. Pulse can't get a
> non-working sound configuration to work, it just adds features and
> complexity. ALSA alone would be easier to debug.
>
I've heard that.  How do I remove pulse audio?

>> > If you don't have it, install pavucontrol and see if any devices are

> This sounds really odd. Is this the case for both the built-in and the
> new sound card? They both produce static?
>
No, only the new card.

> One more thing you can try; run 'lspci -k', it will print what kernel
> modules your PCI devices are using. Run a Google search for the names
> of the kernel modules you see listed for each sound card, and add the
> words "produces static" to the search.
>
> Other than ripping out Pulse and trying with just ALSA, I'm afraid I
> don't have any other suggestions. Ever since the days when OSS was king,
> sound has always Just Worked for me, so I've never needed to get deep
> into it. You could look here for more information, though:
>
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page
>
> Good luck!
>
Many thanks.

FWIW, I contacted Creative, and their response was that they don't do
Linux.  that's reason enough for me to return the card.




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