Sound problem [Back to silence]

[david walcroft]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:55 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>   
>> david walcroft wrote:
>>     
>>> david walcroft wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Nigel Henry wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Wednesday 03 October 2007 01:56, david walcroft wrote:
>>>>>  
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Nigel Henry wrote:
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>             
>>>>>  
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> See how you get on, and post back please.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All the best.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nigel.
>>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> I have done the items you suggested but with no luck,I suppose the
>>>>>> possibility is that my sound card is faulty....
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   david
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Ok David. Don't give up on the sonicvibes card just yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> As you've now made the changes to /etc/modprobe.conf. please post 
>>>>> your current /etc/modprobe.conf, also the output of cat 
>>>>> /proc/asound/cards, which should now show 2 cards, the sonicvibes 
>>>>> one as card0, and the intel one as card1.
>>>>>
>>>>> What did you get from running alsamixer on the CLI (konsole)? Did 
>>>>> you get mixer settings for the sonicvibes card?
>>>>>
>>>>> And starting alsamixer as "alsamixer -c 1" (without the quotes), did 
>>>>> you get mixer settings for the intel card?
>>>>>
>>>>> What music app are you using to test your soundcard?
>>>>>
>>>>> Running speaker-test should produce some pink noise out of your 
>>>>> speakers, as long as the speakers are connected to the soundcard. To 
>>>>> cancel the speaker-test use ctrl + c.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've also posted to the alsa-user list to see if there are any known 
>>>>> problems with snd-sonicvibes driver, and also did a bit of googling. 
>>>>> the card looks like it should work OOTB.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's annoying not to have sounds. My audigy2 soundblaster works ok, 
>>>>> and on the other machine the ensoniq card also works, but it's 
>>>>> frustrating when you can't get your card to produce sounds.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nigel.
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>           
>>>> Well I finally have sound,I pulled the Sonics card out of my box and 
>>>> set up
>>>> the onboard AC-97, so it would seem the Sonic card was the likely 
>>>> culprit.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for all of your help Nigel
>>>>
>>>>   david
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Well my sound lasted one reboot and I'm back to silence
>>>
>>>       
>> This is driving me crazy,now sound has returned all on It's own!!!
>>
>>     
> Have you been saving the alsamixer sond levels after setting them using:
> alsactl ?
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Thanks Aaron, I have just done It (alsactl store)

   david