On Wednesday 21 May 2008 12:35, you wrote: > Update: > > I removed the DVB-T card from the system and rebooted - same problem. > System sees the card but the ALSA system doesn't recognise the codec > > <sigh> still looking. > > Peter Hi Peter. First of all it would be fair to say that there are horrible problems with hda intel based cards, as they are setup differently on the mobos of PC's/Laptops, depending on which machine you have. Laptops are the worst, as your only alternative if you can't get the onboard hda intel card to produce sounds, is to buy a USB, or pcmcia card. At least with a PC, and aspare PCI slot you can buy a cheap, known Alsa supported card, and get the sounds working. That said, you had sounds working when you had your Gutsy Gibbon installed, so at least you know the sounds worked with the hda intel card. You say that your not sure if the sounds stopped after installing the server version of Ubuntu GG, or after you'd installed HH 8.04. I spent a bit of time at the Ubuntu site looking at the server version, and the kernel. It did say the server kernel was somewhat different, but didn't say too much about the differences. I don't know if there is some specific reason that you need the server kernel, but if not it may be worth installing the generic one, and seeing if the sounds work ok with it. I'm a bit lost. Alsaconf is now deprecated, and no longer exists on GG. You used to be able to run that command as root, and it would search for soundcards, and if found set them up. I can't find anything on GG to reconfigure the soundcard. All that running "asoundconf list " (no double quotes)shows is soundcards that are already configured. There are a couple of things you could try to perhaps identify the problem. First open konsole/terminal, and enter the following text. sudo tail -f /var/log/messages This should capture any problems when running the following stuff. Now open another instance of konsole/terminal, and run the following command. sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop Followed by /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start Any messages on the konsole running tail -f? Also check out cat /proc/asound/cards, to see if any cards have appeared. if so we may be getting somewhere, but if not try the next suggestion, as below. Leaving the konsole running tail -f open, on the other konsole do. rmmod snd-hda-intel This may need to be run as. modprobe -r snd-hda-intel, if the rmmod command fails. Now run. modprobe snd-hda-intel Check again any output from the other konsole running tail -f, and also run. cat /proc/asound/cards, which may show detected cards. Whatever output you get on the konsole/terminal that is running tail -f /var/log/messages, please post it to myself, and to the alsa-user list. Personally, and if you have a spare PCI slot, I'd have a look on E-bay for an Audigy2 soundblaster card (emu10k1), which is the one I have. I think they can be picked up quite cheaply, and I know that this card works. Just a suggestion. Nigel. > > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Peter Westley <alsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Nigel, > > > > Thanks for the suggestions. > > > > I now have both : > > options snd-bt87x index=2 > > options cx88-alsa index=2 > > > > in the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base file but that hasn't helped. > > > > What is the difference between 2 and -2? Other modules have -2. > > > > I have tried these changes remotely but I will try removing the TV card > > altogether tonight and see if that makes any difference. At least if it > > does work I'll know that it's some sort of conflict. > > > > I don't roll my own kernel - I'm not that clever! > > > > Thanks again, > > Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
